Brahms piano piece to get its premiere 159 years after its creation

Albumblatt was found in a Göttingen music director's book and will be presented for the first time on 21 January on Radio 3A two-minute piano piece by Brahms that had lain undiscovered since it was written in 1853 is to get its debut on Radio 3 this month. Entitled Albumblatt, meaning "sheet from an album", the composition was discovered in the library at Princeton by the conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood. It will be performed by the pianist Andras Schiff on Music Matters on 21 Jan...

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