Just discovered this advert for Americans for the Arts. You see? It is possible to use the power of advertising for the good of classical music. This is televisual genius, using Brahms to convert ...

Though period-instrument recordings of earlier 19th-century chamber music are reasonably familiar these days, I'm not sure that any of these works by Brahms have been performed in such a way on disc ...

Johannes Brahms is a funny one in the history of classical music. When you first hear his work it seems older than it is, like he should be further to the left on the following timeline, by birth date ...

Hilary Hahn, violin; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor (Sony Classical). Brahms: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Kyung ...

Conductor Kurt Masur's role in Germany’s reunification has tended to obscure his musical strengths. I'd previously dismissed him as a safe, reliable pair of hands, so exploring this Brahms set was an ...

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform one of the great romantic symphonies by Johannes Brahms in a programme of music that spans three centuries. The guest conductor for this performance, filmed ...

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 ...

“It’s like when you have a vision of a huge mountain from far away,” says Nelson Freire about returning to Brahms’s F Minor Piano Sonata after a gap of 50 years. “By getting close you begin to notice ...

Some composers we know are lovable, just because the whole world loves them. Think of Mozart or Tchaikovsky or Puccini. Brahms is different. In person, he was as prickly as a hedgehog. It’s no ...