John Eliot Gardiner and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra deliver fresh, beautifully detailed Brahms symphonies on CD.

The English composer pays reverent and inventive homage to music by the German grandee with the help of the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann Throughout his 60-year career as a composer, ...

There's a juicy psychological, even romantic, angle underlying his mathematical analysis of an important Johannes Brahms composition in the new book co-written and edited by Scott Murphy, University ...

The achievement of any good musical performance is that the audience doesn’t understand how complicated it is, according to Kevin Brower, conductor and artistic director of the Anam Cara choir. Anam ...

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 ...

HONG KONG, 22 October 2015 - A lecture recital was presented by the music faculty of University of Notre Dame, in which Professor Peter H. Smith, Professor of Music and Department Chair, had given a ...

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 ...

Friday’s program at Music@Menlo was something of a puzzler, titled “Veiled Symphonies.” Composer Robert Schumann once used that phrase to describe the chamber works of young Johannes Brahms, the idea ...

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 ...

In December 1877, leading up to the premiere of Johannes Brahms’s newest composition (which would be performed by the Vienna Philharmonic), the German told friends as well as the publisher of his work ...