When it comes to standard repertory in classical music, there’s nothing like going to the Three Bs — Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — for some of the greatest works ever written. This weekend, the ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) for choir and orchestra, which premiered in 1867, brought the composer fame. His arrangement for choir and two pianos, completed just one year later, ...

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

Vancouver’s Friends of Chamber Music wrapped up its 75th anniversary season on Sunday afternoon at the Vancouver Playhouse with a suitably celebratory, if slightly unusual, program of Anton Arensky ...

Both of Brahms’s piano concertos are gargantuan works. At nearly fifty minutes in duration, this one lasts longer than any other major Romantic piano concerto by quite some stretch. And talking of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Early in his career, Andras Schiff disdained historical authenticity. Now he embraces it, including on a revelatory new Brahms recording. By David ...

All this, too, from memory, like another septuagenarian pianist, Idil Biret, when I last saw her. Leonskaja's first act after entering was to remove the music rack - a practical gesture, nothing ...

Brahms was a scholar’s nightmare. He burned many letters and destroyed traces of works that didn’t meet his standards. But, late in life, he revisited and thoroughly revised a youthful, published work ...

Pianist Natasha Paremski says she has trouble keeping Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in hand.

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of their ...

Some composers we know are lovable, just because the whole world loves them. Think of Mozart or Tchaikovsky or Puccini. Brahms is different. In person, he was as prickly as a hedgehog. It’s no ...