Darkness hangs over a fluid and distinctively emotional take on a dozen introspective works ...

The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes continues its Musicians Choice Chamber Music Series this month with a program that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pianist Helene Grimaud will perform several, Brahms concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Boston's Symphony Hall through Nov. 17. (Photo by Mat Hennek, courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon, Boston ...

In an effort to demystify classical music, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra hosted an “Inside the Music” session. The gathering explored Johannes Brahms’ “Symphony No. 4,” which was one of the works to be ...

Voices of Ascension will present rarely-heard works from three master composers of the 19th and 20th centuries at Church of ...

For a fully rounded musical portrait of the young Brahms, you could do worse than to pair his First Piano Concerto with the Serenade No. 2 in A. That's what Michael Tilson Thomas did in Davies ...

WHEN musical criticism tries to explain or interpret the inner meaning, what may be called the emotional gist of music, it exposes itself to grave dangers. In the first place, it easily degenerates ...

Steve Hackman was in his first assistant conducting gig when he began to feel disconnected from both the pop music he cherished and other 20-somethings. So he quit. A recent graduate of Philadelphia's ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Early in his career, Andras Schiff disdained historical authenticity. Now he embraces it, including on a revelatory new Brahms recording. By David ...