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 ...

Every week, Classic FM presenter and music expert David Mellor reviews the best new releases and re-issues in classical music. This week, David picks out a recording of The Planets by the Bergen ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Kevin Bazzana Bazzana holds a PhD in music history from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in musicology and performance practice from Stanford University. His two books ...

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 ...

Margherita Taylor was in a cab the other day. After a few minutes of chitchat, the driver suddenly recognised her voice. "He told me he listened to the station all the time," she says. "His name was ...