In releasing the two Brahms concertos together, Stephen Hough immediately invites comparisons with the finest recordings of the last half century. There is Emil Gilels's unsurpassed pair of ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

Like all Soviet artists of his era, Emil Gilels' appearances in the UK were sporadic. But in 1979 he made two visits here in quick succession, appearing as soloist in Beethoven's Fourth Concerto at ...

Is it familiarity that makes us love the greater Schumann so much more than the lesser? Perhaps not, suggests Emil Gilels’s gripping account of the rarely heard Piano Pieces Op 32, characteristic ...

Piano recitals as fine as Radu Lupu’s program of works by Brahms and Beethoven in Bethesda on Sunday afternoon are rare. The pianist’s interpretation of Brahms’ darkly colored Seven Fantasies, opus ...