At intermission, after the Schumann, musician friends expressed great enthusiasm for Grimaud’s performance. The virtuosity was certainly there, and bold characterization of music alternately exuberant ...

The two-minute rest for the soloist at the beginning of the Brahms Violin Concerto is no idle wait. Battle is imminent. Journeying to the sunny theme of the opening movement, the violinist must first ...

Kate Molleson focuses on Brahms at home, revealing the subtle sides of this sometimes brawny composer through the music he wrote for himself and his friends to play.

In 1985, Karajan went so far as to mention him – probably mischievously – as a candidate for the Berlin succession. Where Brahms is concerned, his Soviet background will have done little to help. With ...

Pairing Dvorak and Brahms in this way is all well and good for a live, one-off concert, or a souvenir CD, or a historical release where there is no alternative. But in these competitive days, where ...

Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration from art and literature. Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mahler, and Verdi – ...

Brahms was 27 by the time he came to write his ... All episodes since 2010, listed alphabetically by composer surname.

Celebrated pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has said that it’s always a pleasure for him to perform at Cambridge, a city he has ...

Composer Carlos Simon talks about his work ‘Four Black American Dances’ that will be performed by the National Symphony Orchestra in Sarasota concert ...