The San Diego Symphony’s Brahms Festival will be special in several ways. It’s the first festival the symphony has presented since before the pandemic shutdown, and the first to be held in the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s late autumn — viola time. The viola should perhaps be the instrument of summer. Its tone suggests sumptuous ...

Brought there by subway and limousine, and bundled in worsted and furs, the public crowded into Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall last week to hear a 72-year-old man play the piano. Artur Rubinstein was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Johannes Brahms took more than two decades to compose a follow-up to his First Piano Concerto, but audiences at Severance Music Center have only had to wait two years for the sequel.

Nelson Freire's recording of Brahms's Piano Concertos with the Leipzig Gewandaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly won Recording of the Year in 2007 Nelson Freire; Leipzig Gewandaus Orchestra / Riccardo ...

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Johannes Brahms was a renowned German composer and pianist, born in 1833. He is celebrated for his symphonic works, chamber music, and piano compositions, with his Lullaby being one of his most ...

Daniel Ottensamer performs Brahms’ clarinet sonatas in stunning orchestrations by Stephan Koncz in this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. Joined by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Think of what we lost as a result of Brahms’s self-critical demand for perfection. We have a better idea now of ...