Brahms' often overlooked symphony is also the most lyrical and best crafted. Once Johannes Brahms started writing symphonies in his 40s, there was evidently no stopping him. By 1883, when he reached ...

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 ...

From the Cradle Song to his third symphony, you’ve probably heard more Brahms in day-to-day life than you’ve realised. Spending most of his time in Vienna, he moved among some of the musical elite of ...

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 ...

With almost 450 years of tradition, Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Many important musicians have conducted the orchestra, both in the opera and in the regular ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

Suzy Klein with Brahms choral works throughout the week and live performances in the studio by pianist, Peter Donohoe and the Gould Piano Trio. Every night this week Live in Concert from Bristol for ...