BRILLIANT CLASSICS

Brahms, like most composers, had no scruple about arranging his own music for other forces, whether to disseminate it further or earn useful income or both. Sometimes he undertook the transcription...

Brahms made a fairly slender contribution to the organ literature when set beside his works for solo voices, for chamber ensembles and orchestra, and it is confined to the farthest extremes of his...

Close to the Schumanns and admired by Mendelssohn and Wagner, Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) was an accomplished pianist, organist and composer in his own right. His lifelong friendship with Brahms...

Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 3, Composer Johannes Brahms, Artist Gutman Trio, Sviatoslav Moroz violin, Natalia Gutman cello, Dmitri Vinnik piano, Format 1 CD, Here's an opportunity to hear two...

Brahms / Nederlands Philharmonic Orch / Zweden Symphonies 3 & 4 CD1. Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: Allegro Con Brio - Un Poco Sostenuto - Tempo 1 2. Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: Andante 3...

The influential critic Eduard Hanslick was shocked by the discovery that 'Brahms the serious, the taciturn, the North German, the Protestant, the man who detests the world writes waltzes!' In this...

Although Johannes Brahms is best known for his symphonies, string quartets and piano music, he was also a prolific writer of lieder, composing over 200 pieces in the medium. This charming collection...

I'm very happy,' remarks Michael Volle in a booklet interview accompanying this reissue, which gathers together the three albums of Brahms Lieder he made in the spring of 2007. 'Normally if you...

Brahms / Zweden / Nlpo / Rfoh Complete Symphonies CD1. I. Un Poco Sostenuto - Allegro 2. II. Andante Sostenuto 3. III. Un Poco Allegretto E Grazioso 4. IV. Adagio - Piu Andante - Allegro Non Troppo...

We know next to nothing about Jean-Daniel Braun, beyond snippets of memoir and the introduction to his published works. He worked for the Duc d'?pernon; he was known as a virtuoso performer on the...

As with many composers from the early modern period, very little is known about Gregoire Brayssing. This recording features his only surviving work, printed in Paris in 1553 as the fourth volume in a...

Kurt Weill's 'ballet with singing' is one of the masterpieces of 20th-century musical theatre, recorded several times down the years but perhaps not as frequently as it's merits deserve thanks to the...