The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will perform Brahms Symphony No. 4 with featured trumpet soloist Will Leathers at the Cannon ...

Brahms expended some 20 years of blood, sweat and tears before he finally put the finishing touches on his very first symphony. His friend Robert Schumann played a big role in what took so long.

Johannes Brahms is not known for his sense of humour, but his Second Symphony is downright funny. Its lilting themes and exuberant turns have given it a reputation as a "pastoral" symphony (the kind ...

Two new faces and some remarkable music: The Seattle Symphony offered inspiring performances in the first of two concerts led by conductor David Zinman. It seems odd to consider Zinman (who turns 80 ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra will return to Sarasota for a concert presented by the Sarasota Concert Association under the ...

BOSTON - The music or the musicians? What makes a great classical music concert? You need to have captivating music for a memorable concert. But you also need musicians performing at their peak for a ...

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 ...

For a glimpse of classical music’s future in Seattle, head down to Benaroya Hall this weekend to experience Thomas Dausgaard in action. The Danish conductor is back in town leading the Seattle ...

As you listen to this richly Romantic symphony, you get a real sense that Brahms had very much hit his stride as a composer. It had taken until he was well into his forties before he felt able to ...

The character of the Fourth Symphony has been described as autumnal. Even if it weren't the last of Brahms' symphonies, the description would fit, for surely none of the others presents the same ...

How will the San Diego Symphony follow up the most extensive and star-studded season in its 115-year history, let alone one that saw the orchestra return to its home at Jacobs Music Center last fall ...