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 ...
Daniel Barenboim and Gustavo Dudamel with the Staatskapelle Berlin, performing two great works by Brahms. Two great maestros, with a nearly 40 year age gap, combine forces with the Berlin State ...
Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. He wrote a wide range of music, including symphonies, ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Painting of composer Johannes Brahms(Willy von Beckerath (Public Domain)) The 29-year-old Johannes ...
Richard Osborne described this Zimerman/Bernstein account of Brahm's First Concerto as ''narcissistic, so intolerably self-regarding'' although he also found the performance ''overflowing with ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Johannes Brahms took more than two decades to compose a follow-up to his First Piano Concerto, but audiences at Severance Music Center have only had to wait two years for the sequel.
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Led by Manfred Honeck, the orchestra all too quickly revisited Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and, with Vikingur Olafsson, Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. By Zachary Woolfe The ailing conductor was to ...
Our series of Postcards from Composers continues with a glimpse inside the world of Johannes Brahms. Brahms wrote a letter to Clara Schumann in the summer of 1887 that reveals the kernel of ...