The Shangyin Opera House has staged grand galas in celebration of historically significant events, including the 70th ...

The two-minute rest for the soloist at the beginning of the Brahms Violin Concerto is no idle wait ... in the first movement’s martial music and in the second movement’s perilous scherzo.

And what is there to object in a tandem of Brahms and Shostakovich? Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto is what the great Artur Schnabel might have described as “music better than could be performed”. And ...

This fine cello sonata appeared not long after the Second Piano Concerto’s confidence ... has provided the basis for music by many other composers, including Brahms, Liszt, Lutosławski and ...

Next was a piece from the same general era, Johannes Brahms' Sonata No. 1 in G major, and here the highlight was actually the second movement "Adagio," which began with gorgeous piano playing ...

Like so much of Brahms’s music, the Second and Third Piano Quartets are a meeting of classical form and romantic ardour. Performances tend to lean one way or the other, and Zimerman and his ...

Behind-the-scenes reflections on 25 years of Radio 3's Through the Night.

Rob Cowan and Jeremy Nicholas compare notes on Leon Fleisher’s 1962 recording of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto conducted by George Szell Register now to continue reading Thanks for exploring the ...

Conductor Antony Hermus presents enchanting music from Prokofiev's 'Cinderella' and Ning Feng plays Brahms's Violin Concerto with the ... charged with wonder. The second half features adrenaline ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and pianist Emanuel Ax will premiere the long-awaited composition from John Williams in July ...