One of the best features of Tuesday’s music-making was the old-fashioned layout of the orchestra. With the violins divided ...

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, ...

Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's Symphony No. 1, which took the composer around 20 years to compose. While Brahms strove to create his own unique sound, critics pounced upon it. Show more Stephen ...

Brahms and Dvořák – Symphony-Cycle 4 26:06 Music Germany 08/26/2023 Four concerts, eight symphonies, two great composers. Under the direction of Alondra de la Parra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra ...

Johannes Brahms spent more than a decade wrestling with his First Symphony - rewriting, second-guessing, and really trying to ...

Brahms' often overlooked symphony is also the most lyrical and best crafted. Once Johannes Brahms started writing symphonies in his 40s, there was evidently no stopping him. By 1883, when he reached ...