BOSTON - The music or the musicians? What makes a great classical music concert? You need to have captivating music for a memorable concert. But you also need musicians performing at their peak for a ...

This beautiful performance of Brahms’ Violin Concerto by Leonidas Kavakos, soloing with our San Diego Symphony, under the brilliant conducting of the orchestra’s Music Director, Raphael Payare, ...

Herbert Blomstedt demonstrates the “singability” of Brahms in his latest appearance with the Boston Symphony, concluding with ...

Johannes Brahms' beautiful, deeply personal symphony. Johannes Brahms expressed his own enigmatic motto, “free but happy,” in musical symbols that weave throughout this beautiful, deeply personal ...

There’s a special pleasure in hearing a refreshing take on a composition you know pretty well. Not, of course, a performance that’s distorted or belabored with point making. On Tuesday night, at Moody ...

FARGO — In promoting this weekend’s concerts, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra referred to Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven as “grumpy.” The great composers could have been curmudgeons in ...