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

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 ...

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Johannes Brahms was the last grand master in the Viennese tradition; a beacon of sanity in a fast-changing world. What should I listen to in order to start getting into Brahms’s music? If it’s great ...

This recreation of the final concert that the composer attended – only weeks before his death aged 63 – featured his fourth symphony, Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and Haydn’s symphony no 73.

Saturday will mark the 183rd birthday of the celebrated German composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. A complicated and utterly self-guarded man, Brahms liked to claim that his music didn’t flow from ...

Our new series continues with Brahms - for some a reactionary, for others a radical, the highly wrought dramas of his symphonies and concertos and the quiet distinction of his chamber works have ...

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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 ...

A lullaby, more than other forms of music, implies a specific performer and a specific audience. From Middle English “to lull,” the archetypical lullaby is sung gently by a mother or caretaker to a ...