Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 was – and still is – an undisputed masterwork. Audiences went wild for it; critics asked whether it could ever be equalled; and frankly, composers such as Brahms wondered ...

Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's Symphony No. 1, which took the composer around 20 years to compose. While Brahms strove to create his own unique sound, critics pounced upon it. Show more Stephen ...

As with the recent release of the Brahms symphonies conducted by John Eliot Gardiner with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the playing of the Berlin Philharmonic on this album is a consistent ...

"The first German-Hungarian-Gypsy-Swiss-Austrian symphony" is how Iván Fischer gawp-inducingly describes Brahms's First in a sleeve note that ­reflects on its protracted genesis and the multiplicity ...

A photo of Brahms from 1876, the year he composed his "Symphony no. 1", taken from his personal photo collection. Led by Sir Gilbert Levine, the concert celebrated the canonization of two recent Popes ...

The San Diego Symphony’s Brahms Festival will be special in several ways. It’s the first festival the symphony has presented since before the pandemic shutdown, and the first to be held in the ...

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

On 30 November 1877, the great conductor Hans Richter stood at the podium before the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the premiere performance of Brahms’s Symphony No.2. Brahms’s Symphony No.1, in ...

Two jaunty, jazz-flavoured American classics—Bernstein’s bouncy sailors-on-leave-in- New York ballet, and Gershwin’s captivating, bluesy concerto—launch this program in high style. Peter Oundjian ...

Tragic Overture Johannes Brahms, Composer Michael Gielen, Conductor South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony No. 1 Johannes Brahms, Composer Michael Gielen, ...

Experience the power and passion of The Phoenix Symphony with guest conductor William Eddins. Experience the power and passion of The Phoenix Symphony with guest conductor William Eddins. Violinist ...