Brilliant Brahms from Vengerov and friends at Carnegie Hall

Maxim Vengerov, Vilde Frang, Anthony McGill, James Ehnes and Daniel Müller-Schott

Maxim Vengerov, Vilde Frang, Yefim Bronfman, James Ehnes and Daniel Müller-Schott

By Susan Stempleski, 19 December 2025

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“many moments of sublime, nearly transcendent beauty”

Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 16 December 2025

Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34

Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115

Maxim Vengerov, Violin

Vilde Frang, Violin

James Ehnes, Viola

Daniel Müller-Schott, Cello

Yefim Bronfman, Piano

Anthony McGill, Clarinet

Tradition and modernity: Bronfman and Zhang shine in New York

Susan Stempleski, 15th January

Xian Zhang returns to the Philharmonic to lead a program pairing two 19th-century Romantic works with a 21st-century tone poem.

****1

Luisi opens NHKSO's new season with Franz Schmidt

Nahoko Gotoh, 13th September

As a leading exponent of Franz Schmidt's music, conductor Fabio Luisi leads the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo in a rare performance of his Fourth Symphony for the orchestra's season opener.

****1

Concertos old and new on Heyward’s energetic Baltimore program

Sam Jacobson, 8th June

Jonathon Heyward led the Baltimore Symphony in a Beethoven piano concerto along with a new Concerto for Orchestra by composer-in-residence James Lee III.

****1

Coats of many colors: the BSO presents “Music for the Senses”

Kevin Wells, 6th April

Sensory overload? Color takes centre-stage in Scriabin's synaesthetic Poem of Fire and Anna Clyne's Color Field.

***11

Zubin Mehta brings the Munich Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall for Brahms

Edward Sava-Segal, 3rd February

Yefim Bronfman reunites with his old collaborator for Brahms' First Piano Concerto, reinforcing the qualities that exemplify him as a great chamber music player.

****1

Early Ligeti outshines early Brahms at New York Philharmonic

David Wolfson, 19th October

The New York Philharmonic features two early Ligeti works, a new concerto for Yefim Bronfman by Elena Firsova, and Brahms' Serenade no. 1.

***11

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Susan Stempleski

Based in New York City, Susan is a retired specialist in second and foreign language teaching and the author/editor of several professional books for language teachers and many widely used textbooks for English language learners around the world. An avid concertgoer, she spends her time attending operas and other classical music events in New York and Paris. Since 2002, she has regularly published reviews on Classical Source. A keen Francophile, she has a particularly strong interest in French music, literature and film.