This is Palmers highly controversial portrait of Brahms a film that exploded the familiar image of stodgy old bearded Brahms a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano ...

Only those closest to Brahms knew how important this piece was to him, and how he’d suffered in its creation. In his early twenties, he’d lived as the protégé of Robert and Clara Schumann.

Pianist Michael Houstoun performs a recital featuring works by two of the great Romantic composers – Brahms and Rachmaninov.