Browse: Brahms - Variations on a theme by Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9

Martin Jones is a skilled and sensitive artist with an imaginative response that is faultless. — Gramophone Magazine More…

The perfect case of a pianist who sounds completely relaxed in the studio and, because of that, manages to balance assertiveness and poetry in ideal proportions. Gerhard Oppitz is a penetrating... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 More…

he's a born Brahmsian, equipped at the highest level with the necessary speed and power, the muscular strength and facility of finger tempered by breadth of outlook and solidity of intellect. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If the Mozart variations are nothing special, those by Beethoven and Brahms are masterpieces, which Trpčeski conveys with his characteristic refinement. His Brahms has grave beauty, and his Beethoven... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet, the... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Kodama has long been fascinated by the love, friendship and music of this creative trio, and explores it here from Brahms’s point of view, opening with an energetic account of the Piano Sonata... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…