It’s “in with the new” and even “in with the old” when the Springfield Symphony Orchestra ends its 2025-’26 season on ...

Piano Concerto no 1 in D minor, Op 15 Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev ...

Saturday will mark the 183rd birthday of the celebrated German composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. A complicated and utterly self-guarded man, Brahms liked to claim that his music didn’t flow from ...

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Johannes Brahms was and remains one of the most important and towering figures of the Romantic period of music. He rose from squalor as the son of a bassist and a seamstress. Brahms got his start ...

Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti concert and a release from the Berlin Philharmonic are among our selections. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

With the coronavirus pandemic raging and no public performances in the forseeable future, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is streaming its acclaimed performance of Brahms' Requiem – free. April ...

In Now Hear This Season 7, Scott Yoo travels across Germany to unlock a window into the inner world of Johannes Brahms. Use the playlist below to follow the same sonic journey and stream Now Hear This ...

I recently read Simon Callow’s excellent biography of Richard Wagner. Now, to be fair, I’m reading a biography of Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford. As in music, in biography these two are opposed. We ...

The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis has an inspired way of opening their concerts with a student performance. For the program on Monday, April 20 at the 560 Music Center, a student group performed ...