With their meaty parts for each player Brahms’s three piano trios have long attracted star performers. The combination of pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Yo-Yo Ma is as ...

Brahms was a scholar’s nightmare. He burned many letters and destroyed traces of works that didn’t meet his standards. But, late in life, he revisited and thoroughly revised a youthful, published work ...

Piano Quartet No. 3 Trio Wanderer Christophe Gaugué, Viola Johannes Brahms, Composer The characteristics of the earlier release are again in evidence here. Violinist Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian ...

The tradition of leading soloists joining up to play the staples of the chamber-music repertory is a long and distinguished one. One of the most celebrated early recordings of the three Brahms piano ...

The Berlin-based Feininger Piano Trio embark upon a project to record the three Brahms trios, coupling them with music by three Viennese composers who fell under Brahms’s influence. First up is the Op ...

The trio of cellist Bion Tsang, pianist/composer John Novacek, and violinist/Conductor Scott Yoo frequently share the stage outside of Texas, and Tsang eagerly reunites them in Austin for this concert ...

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

CHAMBER music is supposed to be “caviar for the connoisseur,” but I’ve always found it more pleasurable and easier to follow than symphonic or concerto forms. For one thing, you only have a few lines ...

Crosstalk Brahms and Smetana piano trios, played by the Sonare Trio from Cleveland, plus discussion. Resonance at SOMA Towers, 288 106th Ave. N.E., Bellevue $12.50-$25 Sunday, December 27, 2015, 2pm ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Brahms’s B major Trio offers both an early and late word from the composer. This article contains ...