Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 was – and still is – an undisputed masterwork. Audiences went wild for it; critics asked whether it could ever be equalled; and frankly, composers such as Brahms wondered ...

Experience the power and passion of The Phoenix Symphony with guest conductor William Eddins. Experience the power and passion of The Phoenix Symphony with guest conductor William Eddins. Violinist ...

For the fans of Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68, October will be a chance to compare two different renditions by two top European orchestras at the same venue, just six days apart. On Oct. 7, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brahms expended some 20 years of blood, sweat and tears before he finally put the finishing touches on his very first symphony. His friend Robert Schumann played a big role in what took so long.

I’ve had dozens of conversations that discussed the greatest symphonies of all time. I’ve read dozens of articles on the same topic. The usual suspects are all there, Beethoven’s Ninth, Mahler’s Ninth ...

When Beethoven wrote his massive Ninth Symphony, he left some pretty big shoes for subsequent composers to fill. As Johannes Brahms famously put it: “You can’t have any idea what it’s like always to ...

Do you like the opening of Brahms’s Third Symphony to be played with gutsy thrust and blaze and bite? If so, there’s a fair chance that you may find this new account by Iván Fischer and his Budapest ...

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will perform Brahms Symphony No. 4 with featured trumpet soloist Will Leathers at the Cannon ...

Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's Symphony No. 1, which took the composer a long time to compose. Brahms had a number of disappointments as an orchestral composer, in particular the reception of his ...

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR/Klaus Tennstedt, ICA Classics ICAC 5090 **** Klaus Tennstedt abandoned his career in the German Democratic Republic in 1971, when he defected to the West. He ...