The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on ...

Today is the birthday of composer Johannes Brahms, born in 1833. In his lifetime, he was compared with his predecessor, Beethoven, and with his contemporary and rival, Wagner. But Brahms biographer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The San Juan Symphony, regional choirs and soloists have joined forces to present A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in Durango and Farmington. Offering this beautiful and enormously comforting ...

Alton Choral Society raised more than £300 for Alton Foodbank with its autumn concert at the Church of St Lawrence.

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 ...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. He wrote a wide range of music, including symphonies, ...

Johannes Brahms’s father was an impecunious double-bass player, eventually good enough for the Hamburg Philharmonic. At the age of six he was discovered to have perfect pitch and a natural talent for ...

We often hear of him as one of the three Bs, a pillar, along with Bach and Beethoven, of the Western musical canon. Yet he was a controversial figure from the start, and just a few decades ago many ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, Brahms holds back the tears, which makes it heartbreaking. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, ...