On this week's episode, we're listening to music of Hungary, including Johannes Brahms' recreations of Gypsy tunes, György Ligeti's avant-garde offerings, and folk- inspired music by ...

Because in Hamburg 100 years ago an impoverished young bull-fiddler had a son born to him by a woman 17 years older than himself, because the lumpish German infant grew up to be Johannes Brahms, ...

From the stage of the freshly spiffed-up Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, S.C., Geoff Nuttall, the newly minted chamber music director at the Spoleto Festival, hosts a concert that exposes the ...

When a Hamburg bull-fiddler and his 44-year-old wife produced a lumpish son 100 years ago, the world was blessed with one of its greatest musical creators. The infant son was Johannes Brahms, who ...

School's out, results are in, there must be some music for the celebration. Indeed, there is, something that really hits the spot, even if the title sounds somewhat straitlaced and stuffy. It's the ...

Daniel Hope is one of those infallible violinists. Every note is speared through the heart, purified. But somehow, along with the perfection, comes rich expression. His Sunday recital in Palo Alto — ...

The cellist David Finckel and his pianist wife Wu Han always deliver more than expected. For their recital Saturday evening in Harris Hall they chose two extraordinary partners in crime, the violinist ...

Born in Hamburg in Germany, Johannes Brahms quickly became a very talented pianist and would go on to premiere many of his own works at the piano. A complete perfectionist, Brahms burnt lots of the ...