The Fourth is Brahms' final powerful symphonic statement. Here, Brahms takes flight, as he melds the soaring sounds of Romanticism to classical structure in a constantly evolving drama. Brahms ...

The Fourth is Brahms' final powerful symphonic statement. Here, Brahms takes flight, as he melds the soaring sounds of Romanticism to classical structure in a constantly evolving drama. Brahms ...

In recent weeks, some people have written me to take exception to my description of programming at the National Symphony Orchestra as “business as usual.” One of the points of having a large orchestra ...

Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie’s scintillating Beethoven cycle hasn't received the acclaim it deserves in the UK. Seek it out forthwith, and you'll feel compelled to invest in this ...

Brahms’s Double Concerto can be unfairly maligned as a dull, downbeat coda to a long compositional career, but it’s much better than that. Written partly as a peace offering to the violinist Joseph ...

Can three star soloists come together and make a successful piano trio? Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk recorded a Brahms piano trio together a few years ago.

“I think of music like a religion and a science,” says cellist Steven Isserlis, sipping at a gin and tonic and waving his hands in big, wafty gestures that imply the point he’s making is really rather ...

False start aside, Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis brought clarity and focus to this touring programme As the leader, conductor and chief soloist of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, violinist ...