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 ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra will return to Sarasota for a concert presented by the Sarasota Concert Association under the ...

Stephen Johnson explores Brahm's 'free but happy' Third Symphony with the BBC SO. The Symphony was written in 1883, nearly six years after he completed his Second. Examples are illustrated by the BBC ...

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 ...

The most stirring portion of Thursday evening’s concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra occurred near the end, during Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 in F Major. Its third movement is its most melancholy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...