Born in Hamburg in 1833, Johannes Brahms was raised on a diet of Bach and Beethoven. But despite the lessons he absorbed from his scores of those masters, he craved a little more spice.

Longtime artistic director Robert Geary of the San Francisco Choral Society and his 150 singers have been working since May, ...

Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the music of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), master of stirring symphonic exclamations and moody piano solos.

Symphony No. 4 / Johannes Brahms / Klaus Mäkelä / Oslo Philharmonic Variations on a Theme by Haydn (1873) Also known as the Saint Anthony Variations, Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn is ...

Saturday will mark the 183rd birthday of the celebrated German composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. A complicated and utterly self-guarded man, Brahms liked to claim that his music didn’t flow ...

Today is the birthday of composer Johannes Brahms, born in 1833. In his lifetime, he was compared with his predecessor, Beethoven, and with his contemporary and rival, Wagner. But Brahms ...

Alex Ross, grieving the recent loss of his mother, writes about the enormous sadness that glows in the work of Johannes Brahms, whom he calls “the great poet of the ambiguous, in-between ...

One of those was the master ironist Johannes Brahms. Cutting irony was a prime Brahmsian mode, and he wielded his wit with special gusto when skewering friends. He was master of the quick putdown.

Johannes was as fair and pretty as a girl. “Many years later, in Vienna, the old Brahms got drunk and broke up a birthday dinner by branding all women with a word that nobody would repeat.

Johannes Brahms: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 40 John Zirbel, horn Gil Shaham, violin Orli Shaham, piano Recorded at the Linton Chamber Music Series, Dec. 14, 2008, in Cincinnati, Ohio ...

Beethoven’s teacher, Franz Josef Haydn, was eclipsed by the genius of his young student. Later, a young Johannes Brahms spent decades writing his first symphony because Beethoven’s legacy cast ...

After the success of The Chopin Project, Rosenwinkel and Brodbeck have turned their attention to reinterpreting the works of Johannes Brahms. The new album showcases ten inventive arrangements by ...