Chailly belongs to that select group of conductors on record who direct all four Brahms symphonies almost equally well. Such conductors – Weingartner, Klemperer, Boult, Wand and Loughran in his fine ...

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter": IV. Finale. Molto allegro Brahms had the historical misfortune of living in the generation after Beethoven. Brahms ostensibly felt enormous ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Think of what we lost as a result of Brahms’s self-critical demand for perfection. We have a better idea ...