Browse: Brahms - Fantasies (7 piano pieces), Op. 116

This is altogether very impressive playing, capturing all the intimacy of the pieces which Brahms labelled as Intermezzos, as well as the drama and urgency of the more outward-going Capriccios…What... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, More…

The music does indeed appear to ‘pour’ from his fingers as though as part of an incandescent flow, alternating the impassioned eloquence of the three capriccios and reflective intensity of the... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, More…

The booklet-notes make reference to the original Gramophone review, in which Gilels and Jochum were praised for 'a rapt songfulness that in no way detracts from Brahms's heroism, and so comes... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Steering a balanced course between imaginative vitality and warmth on one side and resigned melancholy on the other can be difficult, but Nicholas Angelich manages it with a kind of panache.... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, More…

Two favourite Brahms chamber works, the Horn Trio and the finest of the violin sonatas, plus one of the late sets of piano pieces, make a desirable selection…the natural horn’s tone is pleasingly... — Sunday Times, 24/01/2016 More…

Gieseking’s artistry, whether at its finest or least convincing repays constant consideration. He remains an artist with a permanent rather than temporary place in the pantheon of great pianists. — International Piano, September 2017, More…

It's a superb version of the piece by any standard, the slow movements absolutely saturated in intense Romantic melancholy but fleet and agile in scherzo and finale. Faust and Melnikov and scarcely... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, More…

...if Brahms and Schoenberg may strike conservative listeners as odd bedfellows, Shai Wosner, a young Israeli pianist, does not see any dichotomy between "old" and "new" music, but an evolutionary... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…