Johannes Brahms is a funny one in the history of classical music. When you first hear his work it seems older than it is, like he should be further to the left on the following timeline, by birth date ...

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Hilary Hahn, violin; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor (Sony Classical). Brahms: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Kyung ...

Schoenberg's flamboyant take on Brahms's G Minor Piano Quartet sounds less and less authentically Brahmsian the more I listen to it, but it's a work I can't imagine ever getting bored with. Schoenberg ...

Conductor Kurt Masur's role in Germany’s reunification has tended to obscure his musical strengths. I'd previously dismissed him as a safe, reliable pair of hands, so exploring this Brahms set was an ...

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform one of the great romantic symphonies by Johannes Brahms in a programme of music that spans three centuries. The guest conductor for this performance, filmed ...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is in town for a couple of gigs at the Barbican. Saturday evening sees a more challenging programme of Mahler 9 and a UK premiere of a work by Rick van Veldhuizen, ...

Two of the great Romantics share this as their birthday. Johannes Brahms (right) was born on May 7, 1833. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (left) arrived exactly seven years later. Chalk and cheese. They made ...

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 ...

It must have been quite a moment when Brahms heard the clarinettist play. A seminal moment, for at the age of 57, and seeing the direction music was taking as the younger Modernists began to seize ...