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, ...

Some composers we know are lovable, just because the whole world loves them. Think of Mozart or Tchaikovsky or Puccini. Brahms is different. In person, he was as prickly as a hedgehog. It’s no ...

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 ...

In the third of a three-part series, Michael Quinn talks about Brahms's vocal music with Barbara Bonney, Marcus Creed and Graham Johnson The voice was at the centre of Brahms's music. At its beginning ...

They were on opposing sides in music’s great ideological battle of the late 1890s, Mahler as a Wagnerian, and Brahms as the man whose aesthetics represented everything that the Wagnerians despised.

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 ...

Cleveland favorite Augustin Hadelich returns to Severance with Brahms’s exquisite Violin Concerto, which positions its fiendishly difficult solo lines as part of a symphonic whole. Elim Chan also ...

He studied music from a young age, trying his hand at piano, cello and horn. He was continually drawn to composition, and enjoyed success as a conductor and composer in Vienna and across Europe.

Born in Hamburg in 1833, Johannes Brahms was raised on a diet of Bach and Beethoven. But despite the lessons he absorbed from his scores of those masters, he craved a little more spice. That he found ...

In the first of a three-part series, Rob Cowan talks to leading conductors and musicians about the special appeal of Brahms's orchestral works To talk of Johannes Brahms is to enter a world where ...