Both these works for two pianos are better known in other versions - the Haydn Variations as the famous orchestral Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, and the F minor sonata as the Piano Quintet, in ...

Brahms does Haydn: Pianist Emmanuel Ax and conductor Robert Spano had an interesting idea for a concert program. They decided to perform both the two piano version, and the orchestral version of ...

(21) Hungarian Dances, Movements: D minor (orch Parlow) Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, Conductor Johannes Brahms, Composer Variations on a Theme by Haydn, 'St Antoni Chorale Iván Fischer, ...

Johannes Brahms thought he was embellishing music by Haydn when he devised his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" for two pianos. History has proved that the theme is by someone else, but that hasn't ...

Listen to programmes examining the life and works of Johannes Brahms.

(Toscanini, NBC Symphony; RCA Victrola VIC-6400). If anything, Brahms benefits even more than Beethoven from a Toscanini tightening-up. This is a four-record album.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra programs are arranged far in advance, so it's odd that this one should turn out to be so perfectly timed. This weekend's concert, "Haydn and Brahms," is, at the same ...