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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Violinist Joshua Bell is music director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra. Johannes Brahms was the ultimate perfectionist. He spent more than two decades writing his first ...

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 ...

Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

“Are you going to come to our Brahms beard contest? There are going to be strippers.” In 20 years of covering the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, that’s certainly the most unique pitch I’ve ever received ...

Born in Hamburg in 1833, Johannes Brahms was raised on a diet of Bach and Beethoven. But despite the lessons he absorbed from his scores of those masters, he craved a little more spice. That he found ...