The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on ...

Today is the birthday of composer Johannes Brahms, born in 1833. In his lifetime, he was compared with his predecessor, Beethoven, and with his contemporary and rival, Wagner. But Brahms biographer ...

My mother, the mineralogist Daphne Ross, died on February 24th, at the age of ninety-one, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. It was late evening in Los Angeles when my brother called with the ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

Johannes Brahms was and remains one of the most important and towering figures of the Romantic period of music. He rose from squalor as the son of a bassist and a seamstress. Brahms got his start ...

The San Juan Symphony, regional choirs and soloists have joined forces to present A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in Durango and Farmington. Offering this beautiful and enormously comforting ...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. He wrote a wide range of music, including symphonies, ...

Among those celebrated for their eloquence in the art of music, especially instrumental music, it’s worth noting how well they wielded the foreign art of language. It’s not surprising that the prose ...

Some years ago, I was stopped at a traffic light and heard Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 on the radio. It dawned on me (after many times listening and playing it in orchestras on the violin) that ...

Johannes Brahms’s father was an impecunious double-bass player, eventually good enough for the Hamburg Philharmonic. At the age of six he was discovered to have perfect pitch and a natural talent for ...

Led by Manfred Honeck, the orchestra all too quickly revisited Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and, with Vikingur Olafsson, Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. By Zachary Woolfe The ailing conductor was to ...