Gramophone Awards, Brahms (composer)
-
Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Yuya Okamoto (cello)
The A major Quartet is one of Brahms’s most open-hearted and immediately engaging chamber works. Zimerman and his colleagues deliver a superb performance capturing the outgoing qualities of... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 4th April 2025
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Chamber Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Chamber
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
-
The Times, Best Classical Albums of 2025
-
-
Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... —
Awards:
-
Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
-
-
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos
RecommendedAndrás Schiff (piano/director), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Schiff conducts from the keyboard...securing crisp ensemble and cogent longer-term grasp of structure in his forward-moving tempos...The wiry tone of his restored circa-1859 Blüthner grand may... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 4th June 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Recording of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
-
The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
-
-
There’s a marble-statue nobility to his playing, a sense of his powerful technique being harnessed to expression, and a seriousness-of-purpose…To end, we hear three of Brahms’s Intermezzos:... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 17th March 2023
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2023
-
Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Piano
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
-
-
Volodos, rather like the music, can seem to inhabit a world of his own – removed, remote, yet in steely control of the expression of that remoteness…Volodos is a master of soft and silken tone... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Instrumental Choice
-
Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Piano
-
Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
-
-
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
RecommendedDorothea Röschmann (soprano) & Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Rattle
…this is a very impressive account of Brahms's German Requiem, deeply considered and most beautifully played and sung. The full, warm sound he draws from the Berlin Philharmonic has a sombre... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Disc of the month
-
Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Choral
-
Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Choral Performance
-
-
He is tender in op. 118/2 and powerful on op. 118/3. Op. 116/4 sings, and op. 117/2 is delicate, with a lovely touch. In several of these works—op. 116/5 and 6, and op. 117/1, for example—Brahms’s... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Recording of the Month
-
Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
-
-
Schubert: Schwanengesang & Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Finley is never an artist, one feels, to let himself be rushed…and his new recording of Schwanengesang is well worth the wait…The Vier ernste Lieder are possibly even better: noble, refined,... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Solo Vocal
-
-
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedMartin Fröst (clarinet), with Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), with Roland Pöntinen (piano), with Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Br
Fröst revels in the deep-plush velvet of his chalumeau regions - and, indeed, sustains this timbre throughout the instrument's register...the ensemble creates cutting-edge rhythmic urgency,... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
-
-
Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
-
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
-
Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
