CD Recording: Brahms Beloved for Telarc: «John Axelrod presents the Brahms Symphonies not at all in the style we have been used to hear them recently, with just straightforward, forceful playing. He allows his musicians to breath, to enrich the music with lovely colors, deep lyricism and some particularly interesting contrasts. That said, this rather unusual Brahms is unusually coupled with 10 beautiful Clara Schumann songs, ravishingly sung by Nicole Cabell and Indra Thomas.» - Rémy Franck, Pizzicato