Johannes Brahms’s feelings for Clara Schumann were obvious to everyone except his beloved.

From the struggle of his first symphony to the melancholic beauty of his last, Brahms transformed human emotion into music. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is about to bring his remarkable musical ...

Piano Concerto No. 1 & 6 Piano Pieces Op. 118, released by PENTATONE on September 11, 2026, featuring Francesco Piemontesi on piano, with Manfred Honeck conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.The ...

The idea of composing a requiem in the German language based on texts from the Lutheran Bible and the Apocrypha began to take shape in Brahms' mind in 1857, a year after the death of his friend and ...

The 15th of the 16 waltzes, the Waltz No. 15 in A major, has become beloved for its nosta lgic mood. As in his later ...

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 ...

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Music Director Rafael Payare with Bass soloist Michael Sumuel. (Photo by Jenna Gilmer/San Diego Symphony) With a tightly executed German Requiem, the San Diego Symphony’s Brahms Festival began with a ...

Tenor Christoph Prégardien gives an intelligent and perfectly weighted performance with pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr Over the last decade and more, no Lieder recitals have given me more intense pleasure ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page The pianist Paul Lewis picks his favorite page of Brahms’s late solos, a work of “abject anguish.” By David Allen The British pianist ...

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 ...