In his last three sets of piano pieces, all unnecessary rhetoric is purged from Brahms's music. There is no hectoring or lecturing, no celebration of virtuosity for its own sake. Lars Vogt is the ...
Czech pianist Libor Novacek's considerable reputation rests primarily on his Liszt performances, though he is also a superb Brahmsian if this startling recital is anything to go by. This is big-boned ...
Brahms' last piano compositions are often recorded together (at least three new sets have just hit the market) but hardly ever performed complete in recital. They last only an hour, but it's one that ...
Born into a well-known family of musicians from Neuchâtel, Marc Pantillon was raised in an environment filled with music. Studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, where he earned a diploma in ...