Performances in N.Y.C. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, Brahms holds back the tears, which makes it heartbreaking. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, ...

The movie opens up with a woman coming home (from work, presumably?) and calling out for her son. The woman, Liza, is played by Katie Holmes, and she's calling out for her son, Jude. Jude ends up ...

Tenor Christoph Prégardien gives an intelligent and perfectly weighted performance with pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr Over the last decade and more, no Lieder recitals have given me more intense pleasure ...

It was 'going to England' that was the problem, rather than global honor1876.At the age of 43, Johannes Brahms received ...

Classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. The complete Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, performed by violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine with the La Crosse ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The ageing process was not kind to Brahms. As a young adult he still looked juvenile but, by the time he ...

They were on opposing sides in music’s great ideological battle of the late 1890s, Mahler as a Wagnerian, and Brahms as the man whose aesthetics represented everything that the Wagnerians despised.

The pictures are generally of a very old man with long, scruffy gray whiskers and a pronounced paunch, often chomping a cigar. This is the Johannes Brahms that usually accompanies stories about him or ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Live recordings used to be the exception rather than the rule. Today, “live” is considered more truthful than the ...