The schedule for the 2026-27 Kansas City Symphony has dropped.

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 ...

Gerry Steichen set out on a mission to perform all four Brahms symphonies when he was selected as the new music director and conductor of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra four years ago. This mission ...

The piano was Johannes Brahms’ instrument of choice, and it’s clear from his many compositions featuring the piano that he knew the instrument inside out. But when it came time to compose a violin ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

When Brahms was told that the theme of the final movement of his first symphony sounded like Beethoven, he reportedly said, "Any idiot can tell that." Hear famous maestros lead the music. The Four ...

Classical For an inviting foretaste of this week's two-night Davies Symphony Hall visit by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, you could hardly do better than their new box set featuring ...

The Four Symphonies of Johannes Brahms provide the perfect universe for any conductor. Each symphony is a small planet, with its own unique ecosystem. Yet each of the symphonies is transformed and ...