The SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra and Andrew von Oeyen play Brahms' first piano concerto.
The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...
Johannes Brahms made a pithy assessment of the Dutch in 1884. They were, he said, "nice people, but bad musicians". What had occasioned his irritation was the behaviour of the orchestra in the run-up ...
BBC Proms performance from 2024 that includes Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) from the BBC Scottish ...
When Curtis grad Steve Hackman conceived of his innovative “Brahms v. Radiohead” show some nine years ago, he knew it wouldn’t be for everybody. The concert, which explores the common ground between ...
This symphony might a reliable and over-familiar staple on concert programmes, but listen to it with fresh ears. It contains some of the darkest and deepest music in the 19th century The very first ...
Whenever conductor Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra have tackled the music of Johannes Brahms over the past few seasons, there have been hints that something as thrilling as the group’s ...
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 ...
A powerful moment of musical history recreated: Brahms’ German Requiem, played in the same place in which it premiered exactly 150 years earlier. Maddy Shaw Roberts reports from Bremen. There’s ...
Conductor Dominic Grier, leader Simon Hewitt Jones, violin Charlotte Spruit. (Ansel Chaloner-Hughes has been unwell; new piece ‘Equinox’ incomplete; premiere due today postponed) Charlie Barber, ...
The Cleveland Orchestra brought an intriguing mix of old and new to this concert at Carnegie Hall: one of the best-loved violin concertos of all time played by a master soloist, an emotionally ...