Hilary Hahn, violin; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor (Sony Classical). Brahms: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Kyung ...

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Conductor Kurt Masur's role in Germany’s reunification has tended to obscure his musical strengths. I'd previously dismissed him as a safe, reliable pair of hands, so exploring this Brahms set was an ...

Johannes Brahms is a funny one in the history of classical music. When you first hear his work it seems older than it is, like he should be further to the left on the following timeline, by birth date ...

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform one of the great romantic symphonies by Johannes Brahms in a programme of music that spans three centuries. The guest conductor for this performance, filmed ...

Now in his early 60s, Brazilian Nelson Freire is one of the leading pianists of our time, though he is still not known here. These performances of the Brahms concertos, recorded at concerts in Leipzig ...

Francesco Piemontesi, the SCO and Andrew Manze are a perfect fit; Brahms from Vienna; and Max Richter and fellow screen composers compare notes Mozart, prominent in Vienna in the early 1780s as ...

Some composers we know are lovable, just because the whole world loves them. Think of Mozart or Tchaikovsky or Puccini. Brahms is different. In person, he was as prickly as a hedgehog. It’s no ...

An unknown work by the composer Johannes Brahms has come to light after almost 160 years following its chance discovery in a visitor's book, and will be played for the first time next week. The ...

“It’s like when you have a vision of a huge mountain from far away,” says Nelson Freire about returning to Brahms’s F Minor Piano Sonata after a gap of 50 years. “By getting close you begin to notice ...