 He also played the Brahms D minor concerto, which George Bernard Shaw called 'a hash of bits and scraps with plenty of thickening in the pianoforte part, which Mr Leonard Borwick played with the enthusiasm of youth in a style technically admirable'.Shaw recommended that he should embark on recitals.On 20 September he performed a piano quartet of Brahms, and in November 1890 he performed both the quartet, and the "Die Junge Nonne" and "Nacht und Traume" with Fillunger, at Windsor for a royal concert.