They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

Beginning on Sept. 14, the Houston Symphony will dedicate the first thee weeks of the 2012-2013 Classical Season to the Best of Brahms. The three weekends of the Best of Brahms, which include five ...

The UCSB Department of Music will present pianist and Professor Paul Berkowitz in recital, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall at UCSB. Berkowitz will return to the repertoire for ...

BOSTON - The music or the musicians? What makes a great classical music concert? You need to have captivating music for a memorable concert. But you also need musicians performing at their peak for a ...

In 1878, Johannes Brahms wrote his daunting “Violin Concerto” in tribute to a close friend, violinist Joseph Joachim. The technical demands on the soloist require an almost superhuman approach to the ...

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter bares her soul in a searing, sometimes angry, beautiful performance of Brahms' Violin Concerto, recorded live and... Brahms' Best: The Violin Concerto Brahms' Best: The ...

WHAT was Brahms’s reputation thirty to thirty-five years ago? A strange reputation. At any rate, a not very favorable one. Serious but boring music. This was almost the unanimous opinion of the ...