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 ...

They were on opposing sides in music’s great ideological battle of the late 1890s, Mahler as a Wagnerian, and Brahms as the man whose aesthetics represented everything that the Wagnerians despised.

Johannes Brahms was and remains one of the most important and towering figures of the Romantic period of music. He rose from squalor as the son of a bassist and a seamstress. Brahms got his start ...

Brahms' music has rarely sounded so delicate or so jewel-like as it did during Wednesday's recital - alternately ravishing and frustrating - given by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax in ...

NEW YORK — On a drizzly afternoon last month, the pianist Emanuel Ax crossed 57th Street and repeated a short journey he has made many times, walking between Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall, two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brahms' viola-infused string quintets and sextets have in them the essence of amber autumn, and three major L.A. institutions coincidentally turned to them over six November days.