It might have taken Brahms quite some time to write a symphony but once he had premiered No.1 in 1876, there really was no stopping him. By 1884, he was penning this, his final one – and given that it ...

Even those of us willing to confess our antipathy to Brahms - all that repressed emotion hiding behind such stolid, backward-looking classicism - have to take a step back when confronted by the Fourth ...

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 ...

For a composer who was so circumspect, who waited until he was over 40 to complete a symphony, and who destroyed so much of the music he wrote, Brahms must have had a big soft spot for his early piano ...