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 ...

The character of the Fourth Symphony has been described as autumnal. Even if it weren't the last of Brahms' symphonies, the description would fit, for surely none of the others presents the same ...

Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 revels in dusky enchantments, diabolical dances, and frisky folk tunes. In the festive Burlesque finale, Stravinskyan riffs consort with Jewish folk tunes.

Johannes Brahms made a pithy assessment of the Dutch in 1884. They were, he said, "nice people, but bad musicians". What had occasioned his irritation was the behaviour of the orchestra in the run-up ...

13 September: This is a beautiful new take on Brahms’ evergreen Symphony No.4, recorded live in concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall by the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, conducted by ...

The Cleveland Orchestra moved its July 18 concert indoors, delivering Brahms and Shostakovich with skill despite rehearsal ...

Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's Fourth Symphony, written in the 2 years following the Third Symphony. It was Brahms's final work in this genre; Stephen explores some of the characteristics of the ...

Brahms' Symphony No. 4 Alan Gilbert is among the hottest of a new generation of conductors. He leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of the Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform one of the great romantic symphonies by Johannes Brahms in a programme of music that spans three centuries. The guest conductor for this performance, filmed ...