The series returns with a season that covers the great Romantic composer as well as subjects outside the traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than three decades, the Sonoma Bach Choir has been synonymous with the High Baroque. This season, however, the ensemble has ventured far beyond those roots, spanning centuries of classical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LENOX -- If you want to know a composer well, one of the best ways is to listen to a cycle of his works, whether it’s Wagner in his "Ring" cycle of operas or Bach in his sonatas and partitas for solo ...

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 ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

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 ...