The program featured the dynamite saxophonist James Carter and music by two of the most prominent composers working in the US ...

For a fully rounded musical portrait of the young Brahms, you could do worse than to pair his First Piano Concerto with the Serenade No. 2 in A. That's what Michael Tilson Thomas did in Davies ...

Saturday night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra program was the third in a row including a new or recent work by a woman composer.

BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leads French pianist Helene Grimaud in Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 (Marco Borggreve)2.jpg Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons leads French pianist ...

Brahms’ Second Symphony is packed with sweeping emotions and lyrical tunes, expertly realised by Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles. Brahms was a perfectionist, and it took him almost fifteen ...

Johannes Brahms is not known for his sense of humour, but his Second Symphony is downright funny. Its lilting themes and exuberant turns have given it a reputation as a "pastoral" symphony (the kind ...

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

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 29 December 2014 - 2 January 2015. Ivan Fischer’s 2009 recording of Brahms's Symphony No.1 received rapturous reviews. Now the conductor takes his Budapest Festival ...

Do you like the opening of Brahms’s Third Symphony to be played with gutsy thrust and blaze and bite? If so, there’s a fair chance that you may find this new account by Iván Fischer and his Budapest ...

Two new faces and some remarkable music: The Seattle Symphony offered inspiring performances in the first of two concerts led by conductor David Zinman. It seems odd to consider Zinman (who turns 80 ...

On the list of Great Things You Can't Get Enough Of, I would place the music of Johannes Brahms near the top. The Houston Symphony obliges by launching its 2012-13 classical subscription season with a ...

Johannes Brahms' beautiful, deeply personal symphony. Johannes Brahms expressed his own enigmatic motto, “free but happy,” in musical symbols that weave throughout this beautiful, deeply personal ...