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 ...

Symphony No. 2 Lucerne Festival Orchestra Andris Nelsons, Conductor Johannes Brahms, Composer After Claudio Abbado’s death in January 2014, Nelsons inherited Abbado’s Lucerne Festival ‘Orchestra of ...

Who needs another Brahms Second Symphony? Well, after Iván Fischer’s exhilarating Brahms No 1, we can all benefit from the intense freshness and lyricism that his Budapest forces bring to this music, ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 29 December 2014 - 2 January 2015. Ivan Fischer’s 2009 recording of Brahms's Symphony No.1 received rapturous reviews. Now the conductor takes his Budapest Festival ...

Gesang der Geister über den Wassern John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Monteverdi Choir Franz Schubert, Composer Gruppe aus dem Tartarus Monteverdi Choir Franz ...

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra continues its survey of the complete Brahms Symphonies with the second concert in the series, which also features Sir Stephen Hough playing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra continues its survey of the complete Brahms Symphonies with the second ...

A look-ahead to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's 2026-27 season, which heavily features music by Brahms. Highlights include a ...

Even those of us willing to confess our antipathy to Brahms - all that repressed emotion hiding behind such stolid, backward-looking classicism - have to take a step back when confronted by the Fourth ...