Artistic Director Robert Geary conducted the 2025 Summer Festival Chorus in voracious take on the "Requiem," featuring guest ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 1890, when Johannes Brahms turned 57, he told a friend that his career as a composer was probably over, that he’d done enough. The next year, he wrote his will.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work accordingly — sometimes positively, sometimes brutally.

April 10, 1868. Johannes Brahms leads his lifelong friend Clara Schumann up the aisle of St. Peter's Cathedral in Bremen, arm-in-arm, as though they were about to be married.

1430 BBC Proms Composer: Johannes Brahms Laura Tunbridge picks five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms composer Brahms.

Johannes Brahms (born May 7, 1833; died April 3, 1897) was one of the giants of classical music, he appeared to arrive fully armed, found a style in which he was comfortable – traditional structures ...