Concertos, Piano Concertos, Brahms (composer)

[Vogt] may well have conducted the orchestral tuttis, but everything sounds like large-scale chamber music…The pianist’s thinking behind this programme is evidently the way in which this music... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

It is a splendid showcase, not just for the performers, but for the music: it has such a pleasing, expansive warmth and sense of relish. Apart from anything else, it sounds as if the performers... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Clearly working in absolute rapport with Mark Wigglesworth, they achieve together a lean, at times almost wiry sound...yet there is no lack of muscular force or orchestral power in the many... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The booklet-notes make reference to the original Gramophone review, in which Gilels and Jochum were praised for 'a rapt songfulness that in no way detracts from Brahms's heroism, and so comes... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This is Brahms playing of the highest quality. Lars Vogt secures an ideal balance between the intellectual and emotional components of these two epic works…Vogt’s achievement is all the more... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…