NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...

Pianist Helene Grimaud will perform several, Brahms concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Boston's Symphony Hall through Nov. 17. (Photo by Mat Hennek, courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon, Boston ...

Violinist Joshua Bell is music director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra. Johannes Brahms was the ultimate perfectionist. He spent more than two decades writing his first ...

Saturday will mark the 183rd birthday of the celebrated German composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. A complicated and utterly self-guarded man, Brahms liked to claim that his music didn’t flow from ...

Because in Hamburg 100 years ago an impoverished young bull-fiddler had a son born to him by a woman 17 years older than himself, because the lumpish German infant grew up to be Johannes Brahms, ...

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 ...

On Sunday afternoon, Elina Garanca, the Latvian mezzo-soprano, gave a recital in Carnegie Hall. She began with Brahms—indeed, the first half of the program was all-Brahms, comprising fourteen songs. I ...

Steve Hackman was in his first assistant conducting gig when he began to feel disconnected from both the pop music he cherished and other 20-somethings. So he quit. A recent graduate of Philadelphia's ...

Brahms' music has rarely sounded so delicate or so jewel-like as it did during Wednesday's recital - alternately ravishing and frustrating - given by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax in ...

NEW YORK — On a drizzly afternoon last month, the pianist Emanuel Ax crossed 57th Street and repeated a short journey he has made many times, walking between Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall, two ...