Today's composers would love to discover the elusive formula for artistic permanence. But it was probably always so. Even German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) did not instantly achieve the ...

When it comes to standard repertory in classical music, there’s nothing like going to the Three Bs — Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — for some of the greatest works ever written. This weekend, the ...

The school year will come to a musical end at the annual Spring Symphony concert. The UCLA Symphony will perform two symphonic and orchestral works at Schoenberg Hall on Wednesday. The concert will ...

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

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 ...

Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) for choir and orchestra, which premiered in 1867, brought the composer fame. His arrangement for choir and two pianos, completed just one year later, ...

Freire plays tribute to the noted German composer on his new album. Music critic Lloyd Schwartz doesn't always love Brahms, but he loves this recording. This is FRESH AIR. The Brazilian pianist Nathan ...

Both of Brahms’s piano concertos are gargantuan works. At nearly fifty minutes in duration, this one lasts longer than any other major Romantic piano concerto by quite some stretch. And talking of ...

Brahms was a scholar’s nightmare. He burned many letters and destroyed traces of works that didn’t meet his standards. But, late in life, he revisited and thoroughly revised a youthful, published work ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page The pianist Paul Lewis picks his favorite page of Brahms’s late solos, a work of “abject anguish.” By David Allen The British pianist ...

All this, too, from memory, like another septuagenarian pianist, Idil Biret, when I last saw her. Leonskaja's first act after entering was to remove the music rack - a practical gesture, nothing ...

Vancouver’s Friends of Chamber Music wrapped up its 75th anniversary season on Sunday afternoon at the Vancouver Playhouse with a suitably celebratory, if slightly unusual, program of Anton Arensky ...