We’re playing music by each throughout the day, with the Brahms Symphony No. 1 for today's Midday Masterpiece.

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 ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

At just 19 years old, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was told: don’t imitate Brahms. So he didn’t—he answered him. His Clarinet Quintet uses the same instruments and structure as Brahms’s, but speaks in a ...

Brahms thought he was out of steam as a composer until he met clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld in 1891. Out came a late burst of chamber music, including a clarinet trio and clarinet quintet and the two ...

Choral music enjoyed a vogue in much of Europe during the 19th century, but it reached a pinnacle in Germany. Choral societies of various sorts were founded in all of its major cities, sometimes ...

Pacific Chorale, the resident classical music choir of Segerstrom Center for the Arts, will be presenting one of the all-time greatest monuments of choral music on Sunday, November 1 at 5:30 p.m. at ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

In this regularly updated guide, our critic recommends the best classical and opera releases of the year – and suggests a few to avoid Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...