On 30 November 1877, the great conductor Hans Richter stood at the podium before the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the premiere performance of Brahms’s Symphony No.2. Brahms’s Symphony No.1, in ...

Who needs another Brahms Second Symphony? Well, after Iván Fischer’s exhilarating Brahms No 1, we can all benefit from the intense freshness and lyricism that his Budapest forces bring to this music, ...

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 ...

It’s “in with the new” and even “in with the old” when the Springfield Symphony Orchestra ends its 2025-’26 season on ...

Symphony No. 2 Johannes Brahms, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Variations on a Theme by Haydn, 'St Antoni Chorale Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Johannes Brahms, Composer ...

Musick for His Majesty's Cornetts and Sackbutts London Symphony Orchestra Matthew Locke, Composer István Kertész, Conductor Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' London Symphony Orchestra István Kertész, Conductor ...

Johannes Brahms was a curmudgeon with a fantastic sense of humor. He called his Symphony No. 2 a gloomy piece, and then went on to write some of his sunniest music. It's his version of a "Pastoral" ...

Here is Beethoven as we always used to hear him before the period-instrument bands got their teeth into the symphonies -an account of the Second, recorded live in Amsterdam just last year, that makes ...