On 30 November 1877, the great conductor Hans Richter stood at the podium before the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the premiere performance of Brahms’s Symphony No.2. Brahms’s Symphony No.1, in ...

John Eliot Gardiner and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra deliver fresh, beautifully detailed Brahms symphonies on CD.

For a fully rounded musical portrait of the young Brahms, you could do worse than to pair his First Piano Concerto with the Serenade No. 2 in A. That's what Michael Tilson Thomas did in Davies ...

It seems that at 92, with recordings of all of the Schubert and Sibelius symphonies and two cycles each of the Beethoven and Nielsen symphonies under his belt, Herbert Blomstedt is at last going to ...

Johannes Brahms is not known for his sense of humour, but his Second Symphony is downright funny. Its lilting themes and exuberant turns have given it a reputation as a "pastoral" symphony (the kind ...

Symphony No. 2 Johannes Brahms, Composer Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra John Axelrod, Conductor Symphony No. 4 Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra Johannes Brahms, Composer Am Strande ...

Here is Beethoven as we always used to hear him before the period-instrument bands got their teeth into the symphonies -an account of the Second, recorded live in Amsterdam just last year, that makes ...