For a major piece by a much-appreciated composer, Brahms’ Serenade No. 1 is remarkably little-known – especially considering how outgoing this music is. The serenade is as long as any of Brahms’ ...

Particularly when it comes to the Romantic era of the arts, literature and music, it’s easy to consider yesteryear through nostalgia’s amber glass and evoke a kinder, gentler era of serene and genteel ...

Do you like the opening of Brahms’s Third Symphony to be played with gutsy thrust and blaze and bite? If so, there’s a fair chance that you may find this new account by Iván Fischer and his Budapest ...

The Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A that opened the National Philharmonic’s program at the Music Center at Strathmore on Saturday was, in many ways, an ideal lead-in to the Fauré Requiem that was the ...

A serenade is supposed to be a charming diversion, purely for entertainment. So when Brahms tried to make his Serenade No. 1 into a symphony, it just didn't have the oomph a symphony required. Here it ...

Daniel Hege believes the legacy of Johannes Brahms is quality, not quantity. With four symphonies, three serenades, a handful of choral works, a requiem and four concertos to his credit, the list ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Brahms from the Bergen Philharmonic ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Chicago Philharmonic Society presents its second of four concerts of ...

This delectable supplement to Chailly's Leipzig Brahms symphony cycle is predictably good. Brahms's early D minor piano concerto sounds like an attempt to compose on an explicitly symphonic scale, a ...

“Gemütlich” translates as “genial” in the German-English dictionary. That is how Brahms’s two Serenades usually feel in performance, but conductor Riccardo Chailly brings to them his characteristic ...