Paganini via BrahmsA gold medalist from the last Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Olga Kern, plays Book Two of Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini. The theme is Paganini's Caprice No ...

The last of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin, Op 1, has captured the imagination of many musicians. Paganini himself thought well enough of it to make it the subject of 11 variations and a ...

The pervasive image of Johannes Brahms as a stout, grandfatherly figure ambling through forests strewn with autumn leaves has softened and distorted even music he wrote as a young man. But not here.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch traces a path towards Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a single-movement work for piano and ...

The BBC Singers, conducted by David Hill, perform Brahms' German Requiem and his beautiful Geistliches Lied, with the famous set of Variations on a theme by Haydn completing the programme, as part of ...