Two jaunty, jazz-flavoured American classics—Bernstein’s bouncy sailors-on-leave-in- New York ballet, and Gershwin’s captivating, bluesy concerto—launch this program in high style. Peter Oundjian ...

Experience the power and passion of The Phoenix Symphony with guest conductor William Eddins. Experience the power and passion of The Phoenix Symphony with guest conductor William Eddins. Violinist ...

One of the best features of Tuesday’s music-making was the old-fashioned layout of the orchestra. With the violins divided and cellos, basses, and violas in the middle, they had an outsized weight and ...

For the fans of Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68, October will be a chance to compare two different renditions by two top European orchestras at the same venue, just six days apart. On Oct. 7, ...

As you listen to this richly Romantic symphony, you get a real sense that Brahms had very much hit his stride as a composer. It had taken until he was well into his forties before he felt able to ...

A photo of Brahms from 1876, the year he composed his "Symphony no. 1", taken from his personal photo collection. Led by Sir Gilbert Levine, the concert celebrated the canonization of two recent Popes ...

Revered conductor and former Houston Symphony Music Director Christoph Eschenbach returns to Jones Hall. Phenomenal young pianist Jan Lisiecki will tackle Beethoven’s poetic and powerful Piano ...

The school year will come to a musical end at the annual Spring Symphony concert. The UCLA Symphony will perform two symphonic and orchestral works at Schoenberg Hall on Wednesday. The concert will ...

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 ...

When Beethoven wrote his massive Ninth Symphony, he left some pretty big shoes for subsequent composers to fill. As Johannes Brahms famously put it: “You can’t have any idea what it’s like always to ...

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 ...