Boston last week had six days of music by great Johannes Brahms. The first program began rather pompously with the Academic Festival Overture, a symphonic composite of German student songs written by ...

The ninth season of Music@Menlo, the lively Peninsula chamber music festival curated by pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel, is focusing on the music of Brahms. It's such an obvious and fertile ...

Brahms’s music has been lodging in Edward Gardner’s mind and imagination for many a long year – back to the early 1990s, when ...

NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...

Classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. The complete Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, performed by violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine with the La Crosse ...

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist who, when young, earned a living playing in taverns frequented by prostitutes. He was later introduced to the great manic-depressive ...

For our first selection tonight, perhaps it would be best if we first define the term “arabesque.” As some of you may know, an arabesque can be a complex pattern of intertwining lines, famously found ...

The San Antonio Symphony’s Brahms Festival presents a series of 25 performances with 19 musical partners that will explore the works of 19th century Vienna master Johannes Brahms, known along with ...

WHEN musical criticism tries to explain or interpret the inner meaning, what may be called the emotional gist of music, it exposes itself to grave dangers. In the first place, it easily degenerates ...

The playing was electric, the conducting was heartfelt and the string sound in Music Hall’s glowing acoustical space was unforgettable. Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, sometimes called “Beethoven’s Tenth,” is ...

NEW YORK — On a drizzly afternoon last month, the pianist Emanuel Ax crossed 57th Street and repeated a short journey he has made many times, walking between Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall, two ...

The “Summer of Brahms” began Sunday evening. It’s a short summer, a blip that will be over just as the hot weather arrives this weekend. On eight consecutive nights the whole of Brahms’ chamber music ...