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 ...

Emulating Brahms himself with an orchestra of fewer than 50 players, these fresh, engaging recordings show that less can mean a lot more Though these days we generally hear the Brahms symphonies ...

A photo of Brahms from 1876, the year he composed his "Symphony no. 1", taken from his personal photo collection. Led by Sir Gilbert Levine, the concert celebrated the canonization of two recent Popes ...

It took Johannes Brahms fourteen years to complete Symphony No. 1 which was premiered in 1876. The Fourth Symphony was premiered nine years later in 1885. These masterpieces of the symphonic ...

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 ...

Al Ryan brings you an afternoon of live music and specially recorded performances from around the UK. In today’s programme, ...

Symphony No. 1 Johannes Brahms, Composer Thomas Zehetmair, Conductor Winterthur Musikkollegium Orchestra Symphony No. 2 Thomas Zehetmair, Conductor Johannes Brahms, Composer Winterthur Musikkollegium ...

Conductor Marin Alsop has a deep personal feeling for the music of Johannes Brahms. She says she became musically "alive" as a young girl, listening to Brahms, and now she has recorded all four of his ...

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 ...

I have it on good authority that the San Diego Symphony concert on Sunday, February 9, provided a fantastic experience of classical music. My plans to attend were usurped by a family medical situation ...

Symphony No. 1 Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor Johannes Brahms, Composer Symphony No. 2 Cleveland Orchestra Johannes Brahms, Composer Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor Symphony No. 3 ...