Johannes Brahms was one of the romantic period's most conflicted musical characters, and his symphonies are the perfect way to find out why... The image of Brahms the curmudgeon with his hands firmly ...
On 30 November 1877, the great conductor Hans Richter stood at the podium before the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the premiere performance of Brahms’s Symphony No.2. Brahms’s Symphony No.1, in ...
Four concerts, eight symphonies, two great composers. Under the direction of Alondra de la Parra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra interprets works by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. The highlights ...
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 ...
BOSTON - The music or the musicians? What makes a great classical music concert? You need to have captivating music for a memorable concert. But you also need musicians performing at their peak for a ...
‘It is enormously rewarding – one of the world’s grandest bracers. What a lift in those themes, and what tenderness beneath their power! Brahms for ever!’ The Third is the most personal of Brahms’s ...
Four concerts, eight symphonies, two great composers. Under the direction of Alondra de la Parra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra interprets works by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. The highlights ...