Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. This useful pairing finds Brahms at his most autumnal, the entire quartet unfolding at moderate speeds ...

"Definitive" is a dangerous word to use about any performance, especially when the work in question is the rich and repeatedly recorded Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Brahms. But this eloquent, expansive and ...

Brahms's dedication of his op. 51 string quartets (1873) to the surgeon Theodor Billroth provides a window into Brahms's musico-political views in the 1870s that has hitherto been unexplored by music ...

Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

Brahms: String Quartet in C Minor Op. 51, No. 1Brahms: String Quartet in C Minor Op. 51, No. 1 ...

'These are not comfortable performances’, Rob Cowan wrote in his review of the Zehetmair Quartet’s 2003 Gramophone Award-winning album of Schumann string quartets. And Rob’s words ring true for the ...

The Tokyo String Quartet, in residency at the Yale School of Music since 1976, gave their first concert of the season last night in a packed Battell Chapel. An all-Brahms program highlighted the ...