In 1878, Johannes Brahms wrote his daunting “Violin Concerto” in tribute to a close friend, violinist Joseph Joachim. The technical demands on the soloist require an almost superhuman approach to the ...

Brahms' viola-infused string quintets and sextets have in them the essence of amber autumn, and three major L.A. institutions ...

WHAT was Brahms’s reputation thirty to thirty-five years ago? A strange reputation. At any rate, a not very favorable one. Serious but boring music. This was almost the unanimous opinion of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page The pianist Paul Lewis picks his favorite page of Brahms’s late solos, a work of “abject anguish.” By David Allen The British pianist ...