The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest Naxos release offers the first two string quartets of Brahms, ...

"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 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 ...

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 ...

Aside from soloists, it’s safe to say most classical musicians almost always have their sheet music close at hand. But the young players in the Chiara String Quartet have challenged themselves to ...

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, ...