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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have it on good authority that the San Diego Symphony concert on Sunday, February 9, provided a fantastic experience of classical music. My plans to attend were usurped by a family medical situation ...

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

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 ...

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 ...