On Friday, April 29, 2022, cellist Amit Peled releases his next album, Solus et una, on CTM Classics. A follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2018 album Bach Vol. 1, Solus et una features J.S. Bach's ...

The two Brahms Sonatas occupy a place in the repertory for cello and piano superior even to the five of Beethoven. Their emotional and dramatic range was unprecedented and remains unequaled. The ...

Emanuel Gruber, a cello and chamber music professor in East Carolina University’s School of Music, has released a new recording of Johannes Brahms’ cello sonatas with pianist Arnon Erez. Gruber said ...

Comparing Brahms’s pair of cello sonatas is like looking at the two piano concertos. There’s the youthful, three-movement grumpy one. Then a long gap before a major key work in four parts, with a last ...

Is Brahms the new Beethoven? OK, Johannes Brahms got that a lot back in the 1860s and ’70s, and the pressure was part of what kept him from writing a symphony until he was 43. But the question here is ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 Amy Norrington, Cello Piet Kuijken, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 Amy Norrington, Cello Piet Kuijken, Piano How far can we take historically informed ...

This programme, recorded live at London’s Wigmore Hall in January last year, brought together the remarkable artistry of the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires and her regular cellist partner, the ...

Brahms and Tchaikovsky made an effort to be civil to each other when the German and Russian composers met, and that was impressive. In an infamous review, Edward Hanslick, the most powerful critic in ...

“Live recording” can mean many things, from a warts ’n’ all eavesdropping on a concert performance any time in the last century, to a highly-produced experience, mixed down and edited together from ...

There is good reason to couple Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) in the same concert. The older German composer and his wife Clara were mentors to the young upstart, and ...