Retired CPR Classical host Richard Ray can’t stop listening to, loving on and sharing about classical music, especially when he falls for a new recording. I invited him to share (below) about his ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Brahms's love of piano music for four hands is well-known, and can be seen in the ...

For a week after this recording of the Brahms Fourth arrived, I had to limit myself to listening to one movement per day. It's my favorite Brahms symphony, a companion, you might say, since early ...

Schoenberg's flamboyant take on Brahms's G Minor Piano Quartet sounds less and less authentically Brahmsian the more I listen to it, but it's a work I can't imagine ever getting bored with. Schoenberg ...

Among COVID-19’s casualties was an Asian tour the Dallas Symphony Orchestra had planned during this time period. But with music director Fabio Luisi on hand, the orchestra got a jump on its plan to ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. The album was released on Oct. 6, 2009. "It's an unkickable drug habit. And I'm happy to be a junkie until the end of my days." So says 54-year-old ...

BOSTON - The music or the musicians? What makes a great classical music concert? You need to have captivating music for a memorable concert. But you also need musicians performing at their peak for a ...

Brahms, Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3 and 10 and Haydn Variations, and Beethoven, “Coriolan Overture” and “Leonore No. 2” overture, performed by Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting the ...

When I was hired as a classical producer at Colorado Public Radio in the late 90's, I came with a rock and roll and jazz background. I remember asking one of the ...

Johannes Brahms is not known for his sense of humour, but his Second Symphony is downright funny. Its lilting themes and exuberant turns have given it a reputation as a "pastoral" symphony (the kind ...