Jane Jones urges you to put one of the Big Four in your Top Three! It’s January, which means only one thing in the Classic FM calendar – nominations are invited for the top 300 pieces of classical ...

A powerful moment of musical history recreated: Brahms’ German Requiem, played in the same place in which it premiered exactly 150 years earlier. Maddy Shaw Roberts reports from Bremen. There’s ...

A bonus third disc is a real treat, containing a fine Haydn Variations.Riccardo Chailly's new recording of the Brahms symphonies offers a handsome introduction for newcomers as well as compelling and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Brahms’s B major Trio offers both an early and late word from the composer. This article contains ...

The Australian Chamber Orchestra performs Dvorák’s lyrical Eight Symphony and presents the Australian premiere of Norman’s “Gran Turismo.” Although only eight years Antonín Dvorák’s senior, the ...

Maestro David Bowden and the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, along with the Philharmonic Chorus, the Anderson Symphonic Choir and the Anderson University Chorale, scored a double triumph Saturday ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Margherita Taylor was in a cab the other day. After a few minutes of chitchat, the driver suddenly recognised her voice. "He told me ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

Conductor and composer Steve Hackman turns classical music on its head. Over the years, he has mixed some of the most respected pieces of classical music — borrowing from Beethoven to Bartok — with ...

Brahms: String Sextet no. 1: Kocian Quartet. Theme And Variations in D minor: Jean-Francois Heiser, piano (Praga PRD 250 166, mid-price) BRAHMS' String Sextets may not have the appeal of Dvorak's ...