NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...

Pianist Helene Grimaud will perform several, Brahms concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Boston's Symphony Hall through Nov. 17. (Photo by Mat Hennek, courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon, Boston ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For the fifth week in a row, Gustavo Dudamel was to have begun, anew, ...

The Santa Barbara Music Club will offer another free concert of classical chamber music at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in their time-honored venue of the Faulkner Gallery at the main branch of the Santa ...

The “Summer of Brahms” began Sunday evening. It’s a short summer, a blip that will be over just as the hot weather arrives this weekend. On eight consecutive nights the whole of Brahms’ chamber music ...

In an effort to demystify classical music, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra hosted an “Inside the Music” session. The gathering explored Johannes Brahms’ “Symphony No. 4,” which was one of the works to be ...

The ninth season of Music@Menlo, the lively Peninsula chamber music festival curated by pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel, is focusing on the music of Brahms. It's such an obvious and fertile ...

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 biographer ...

Boston last week had six days of music by great Johannes Brahms. The first program began rather pompously with the Academic Festival Overture, a symphonic composite of German student songs written by ...

Steve Hackman was in his first assistant conducting gig when he began to feel disconnected from both the pop music he cherished and other 20-somethings. So he quit. A recent graduate of Philadelphia's ...