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An evening of Brahms quintets at Wigmore Hall, where the Pavel Haas Quartet are joined by Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl. 

After tumbling deliriously to the end, if they had played one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances as an encore, they would have had them the audience dancing in the aisles.

The Belcea Quartet gave us bleak despair in their Shostakovich, but joined by Antoine Tamestit, they also gave us joyful Mozart and life-affirming Brahms.

Playing repeatedly in my mind as I walked home on 24 July was the spine-chilling orchestral performance of the "Dance of the Knights" from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet in the Franz Liszt Academy’s superb Solti Hall.

In Japan, it is often said that “chamber music doesn’t sell”, but in fact the past month has been an exciting time for chamber music in Tokyo.

Framed by passionate performances of Mendelssohn and Brahms, a gorgeous neo-Romantic work by Steven Stucky is unveiled in this installment of the 2015 Summer Festival. 

The Scottish Ensemble playfully challenged the audience to decide game-show style, which country’s string music won the night: Germany or Britain? Indeed, the concert was a game of two halves with Britain being represented by William Walton and Martin Suckling in the first and Germany by Leopold Hurt and Brahms in the second.

Johannes Brahms and his music have a reputation for being somewhat meaty, and so an English Sunday afternoon seems an appropriate time to hear two of his chamber works side by side.

Lancé par Liya Petrova pendant le premier confinement, le festival donnait son premier concert avec public Salle Cortot, premier événement d'un triptyque entièrement consacré à Johannes Brahms.

Faire de la musique au plus niveau sans argent ? ça ne va qu'un temps et il faut être jeune et idéaliste pour réussir un tel pari.