There is no good reason why the Boston Symphony Orchestra should have been playing to a half-empty house on Thursday evening.

Saturday night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra program was the third in a row including a new or recent work by a woman composer.

Gerry Steichen set out on a mission to perform all four Brahms symphonies when he was selected as the new music director and conductor of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra four years ago. This mission ...

The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra continues its 2025–26 season with Brahms' Violin Concerto. The concert will take place on ...

Rarely do I attend a classical music concert in Dallas and know no one in the audience. But that’s how it was Tuesday night when the Dallas Chamber Symphony played at Moody Performance Hall. Reaching ...

When Brahms was told that the theme of the final movement of his first symphony sounded like Beethoven, he reportedly said, "Any idiot can tell that." Hear famous maestros lead the music. The Four ...

Johannes Brahms was one of the romantic period's most conflicted musical characters, and his symphonies are the perfect way to find out why... The image of Brahms the curmudgeon with his hands firmly ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

Classical For an inviting foretaste of this week's two-night Davies Symphony Hall visit by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, you could hardly do better than their new box set featuring ...

When I was hired as a classical producer at Colorado Public Radio in the late 90's, I came with a rock and roll and jazz background. I remember asking one of the ...