Johannes Brahms is a funny one in the history of classical music. When you first hear his work it seems older than it is, like he should be further to the left on the following timeline, by birth date ...

It must have been quite a moment when Brahms heard the clarinettist play. A seminal moment, for at the age of 57, and seeing the direction music was taking as the younger Modernists began to seize ...

Conductor Kurt Masur's role in Germany’s reunification has tended to obscure his musical strengths. I'd previously dismissed him as a safe, reliable pair of hands, so exploring this Brahms set was an ...

At just 19 years old, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was told: don’t imitate Brahms. So he didn’t—he answered him. His Clarinet Quintet uses the same instruments and structure as Brahms’s, but speaks in a ...

Francesco Piemontesi, the SCO and Andrew Manze are a perfect fit; Brahms from Vienna; and Max Richter and fellow screen composers compare notes Mozart, prominent in Vienna in the early 1780s as ...

In this regularly updated guide, our critic recommends the best classical and opera releases of the year – and suggests a few to avoid Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti concert and a release from the Berlin Philharmonic are among our selections. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words ...

Pianist Bruce Vogt will perform March 15, 2019, at UVic's Phillip T. Young Recital Hall.Michele McDonald Pianist Bruce Vogt, a longtime professor in the University of Victoria’s School of Music, has ...