Composer

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider performs treasures of German Romanticism, both as violin soloist and conductor. Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is a virtuosic display that also wears its heart on its sleeve with aching melodies and a lush orchestral accompaniment. Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 exudes lyrical beauty throughout and builds to a triumphant ending.

Romantic Treasures: Bruch & Brahms

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Richard Strauss brings humor and charm to Till Eulenspiegel, a lively portrait of the mischievous prankster. Brahms never revealed a story behind his Third Symphony, but its four movements are infused with a yearning, bittersweet beauty. Star soprano Julia Bullock gives the world premiere of a new song cycle, written for her by former CSO Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice Matthew Aucoin. Set to the poetry of Chilean writer Raúl Zurita, the piece explores themes of memory, language and spirituality.

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Till Eulenspiegel & Bullock Sings Aucoin

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The beautiful and powerful Double Concerto by Brahms, with Gothenburg’s own supernova Ava Bahari and cellist Andreas Brantelid. Pekka Kuusisto also leads the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Louise Farrenc’s romantic symphony No. 3.

Brahms Double Concerto

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Join the Duke Symphony Orchestra for an evening of profound emotional depth and stirring musical beauty in "The Exaltation of Tragedy"-a program that explores the majesty, sorrow, and transcendence born from the human condition through powerful orchestral works.

Duke Symphony Orchestra: "The Exaltation of Tragedy"

The Hamburg Doctors’ Orchestra is mainly made up of doctors and musicians from medical professions. The orchestra was founded in 1964 and performs for charitable purposes: for example, to support the work of the Hamburg Hospice Foundation.

Hamburg Doctors' Orchestra

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

There is pathos and passion from the first bar of Brahms's first piano concerto. A powerful timpani roll sets off a great symphonic drama, and during the concert both soloist and orchestra face great trials. But at the same time they share the same desire to perform the dazzlingly beautiful music.

Elim Chan & Shostakovich

DR Koncerthuset

A meeting between Brabbins and Hardenberger, where Widmann's Trumpet Concerto reaches towards eternity, and Brahms' Second Symphony offers music inspired by nature. 

Brahms & Brabbins

Malmö Concert Hall

Around 1920, the composer Emánuel Moór had the vision of building the piano of the future. His duplex piano with two manuals was born out of the spirit of the late Romantic period and offers even more tonal colours and a greater richness of sound. On an ordinary piano, one touch of the keys causes a hammer to strike the string. With the duplex piano, two hammers can be coupled: one keystroke then produces two tones simultaneously. This doubling of the tones leads to an unimagined fullness of sound in the forte, and to a magical brilliance of sound in the piano. The two manuals allow for differentiated layers of sound.

Duplex Piano – The Piano with Two Manuals

Chamber Concert 3 »Women's Love«

Oper Graz

One of the great virtuoso showpieces, Tartini’s ‘Devil’s Trill’ sonata was inspired by a dream in which the composer imagined a deal with the Devil, who proceeded to demonstrate the best solo Tartini had ever heard! Coupled with Brahm’s beautiful final violin sonata this programme is a perfect showcase for Scottish virtuoso Emma Baird.

Lunchtime Concert: The Devil's Trill

Perth Concert Hall

A full 22 years lie between the premieres of Johannes Brahms's two piano concertos. Compositionally, he was still in his infancy when, in 1854, he orchestrated a now-lost sonata for two pianos, first transforming it into a symphony and then into a piano concerto. "Terrible, heavy, and grand," he prophesied to Clara Schumann in a letter. He worked on the work for two more years, which premiered in Hanover in 1859. Its groundbreaking quality was only recognized years later.

3rd  Symphony Concert

Music and Congress Hall Lübeck

Franz Schubert's Fantasy in C major is one of his most important chamber music works for violin and piano. Lyrical melodies and brilliant virtuosity merge here into a poetic soundscape that transcends the everyday.

Musical Fantasies

House in the Park

Classical music on Sunday

Nikolaisaal

The Orchester der Oper Zürich starts the concert season under a new, old name. After thirteen years as Philharmonia Zurich, the orchestra will return to its original moniker. The Philharmonic Concerts will once again alternate between the Opernhaus and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Kateryna Tereshchenko

Zurich Opera House

This concert is included in these packages: Chamber Music Dialogues, Fantasy and Fury: Music of the Romantic, and Season Sampler.

Habsburg Harmonies: Haydn, Ligeti, and Brahms

Colburn School

British chamber music paired with a masterpiece of German Romanticism - in this concert, we bring together unjustly unknown pieces with rightfully famous ones. Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor is part of the musical heritage, like Beethoven's symphonies, and is just as popular today as classics like the Fifth Symphony. On the other hand, Arnold Bax, the British composer born in 1883, was a star in his homeland during his lifetime but later almost fell into obscurity. He was never quite well-known here. However, he has written beautiful music! His First String Quartet is full of romantic melodies and captivates listeners immediately. Our Composer in Residence, James MacMillan, contributes another work from the island with his Second String Quartet, which even music critics rave about, describing it as a "captivating, powerful masterpiece" that captivates narratively and emotionally.

Collenbusch with Brahms

Palace of Culture

Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun, Gold Medalist at the First China International Music Competition, performs works by Bach, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms at his Koerner Hall debut.

Mr. Yun has been hailed as a “poet of the keyboard” (Pianist Magazine) and The Philadelphia Inquirer noted his thrilling performance and “interpretive flashes that point to an emergent big personality: moments of grandness or deep expressivity.” He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2023-24 under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin with Orchestre Métropolitain, following his 2022-23 debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Yun has appeared recently with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Hamilton (ON) Philharmonic, and Rhode Island Philharmonic; outside North America, he has recently appeared with Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

Tony Siqi Yun, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Step into an enchanting evening of erudite string sextets from Brahms, each brimming with emotional complexity and harmonic depth, Tales of joy, yearning, and nostalgia unfold in the language of strings. While composers had explored the string sextet before Brahms, these works redefined the canon and endure as cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire.

A Brahmsian Affair

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

One California Plaza

Brahms’ vibrant and lively Hungarian Dances were inspired by the cherished traditional heritage of a long-time friend. Schumann’s passionate Fourth Symphony, emblematic of his joyful marriage to Clara, languished for ten long years before final publication. Grieg’s heroic Piano Concerto shines with rich Norwegian folk melodies, virtuosic cadenzas, and majestic flourishes.

Grieg & Schumann: Romantic Impressions

Kleinhans Music Hall

Gilbert Kalish and the Viano Quartet

Drew University

WE PRESENT STORIES of light, color, and hope in this concert featuring works by two Kansas composers. Gordon McQuere invites us to contemplate kindness, perseverance, and wisdom in his optimistic and
colorful Three Essays, and Alyssa Morris’s Color and Light (Tlapalli Tlahuilli) takes inspiration from the book “Musicians of the Sun” which details the Aztec myth of how the world received its color and light. We then present Brahms’s delightful Haydn Variations, a perennial symphonic favorite that shows off Brahms’s musical genius as he inventively riffs on a simple chorale, transforming it into a virtuos

Color and Light 

Washburn University

Pro Arte Sings Songs of Destiny

West Side Presbyterian Church

Journey through the sweeping landscapes of Romanticism in this evocative program of Mendelssohn and Brahms. The concert opens with Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, a musical postcard from the rugged Scottish coast. The mood turns inward with Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto in E minor, a work of lyrical intimacy and soaring virtuosity, performed by 2024 McArthur Grant Fellow Johnny Gandelsman. After intermission, we plunge into the profound depths of Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4, his final and most introspective symphony—an autumnal masterpiece that blends classical form with searing emotion.

Ebb and Flow

Ithaca College

Music Director Peter Oundjian leads a rare Denver appearance of the enormously talented violinist Soyoung Yoon, who wows audiences regularly in concert halls across Europe and Asia. She’ll steal the show with the music of Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla, whose collection of vibrant musical portraits of Buenos Aires pays homage to Vivaldi’s own Four Seasons.

The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Soyoung Yoon

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Music is a powerful tool for getting in touch with our deepest emotions. This program presents three perspectives on processing grief. From the present time, Henry Dorn and Anna Clyne pay tribute to their mothers, while Brahms’ Requiem is not so much a Mass for the dead, but music meant to comfort those left behind.

Søndergård Conducts Brahms Requiem

Orchestra Hall

The French piano nonpareil Hélène Grimaud brings "gritty force and dark ecstasy" (The Arts Fuse) to Brahms's stormy powerhouse First Piano Concerto – a piece written to introduce its young composer/pianist to a picky audience who booed its premiere, even though it went on to become one of the world's most popular piano concertos. Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann then taps into the poetic nuances of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for the Third Symphony by the fervent Romantic Robert Schumann, hero and mentor to young Brahms. Nicknamed the Rhenish Symphony, Schumann's Third evokes sights and sounds along the storied Rhine.

Brahms with Stutzmann + Grimaud

The Woodruff Arts Center

The Opera Orchestra's Midis Musicales are always a great success with audiences. These short concerts (from 45 minutes to 1 hour) are presented in a warm and friendly atmosphere and will surprise you with the richness of the offerings!

Midi Musical | Montpellier Occitanie National Opera Choir

Opéra Comédie

Concert in Seoul

Seoul Arts Center

Last season, Raphaël Pichon and his Ensemble Pygmalion thrilled Hamburg audiences with a moving performance of Johannes Brahms's "German Requiem." Almost a year later, they are now turning their attention to other sonorous vocal-symphonic works by the composer, including his beloved First Symphony.

Pygmalion / Stéphane Degout / Raphaël Pichon

Get ready to vote! The instrument families show off their unique skills and sounds, and you get to pick your favorite. Who will win? It's up to YOU!

The Great Debate

Cincinnati Music Hall

When 57-year-old Brahms penned his Second String Quintet, he truly believed that his best work was behind him. His biographer Walter Niemann later disagreed, calling it “the most passionate, the freshest, and the most deeply inspired by nature” of Brahms’ entire catalog.

Brahms Strings

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Playing on period Italian instruments, Modigliani Quartet will grace us with works by giants of the string quartet: Haydn’s #67 with its unusual opening, Adagio, and closing movements; then we sample a charmingly rich work written by a young Beethoven while under the tutelage of Papa Haydn. While the key may point to a previous melancholy Schubert work, Brahms threads lightness, joy, and vulnerable beauty throughout his quartet #2 within a tapestry of canons, polyphony, and counterpoint.

Modigliani Quartet

Rice University

"The Gewandhaus Orchestra strikes at the heart," was the headline in the Hamburger Abendblatt after the top orchestra's last ProArte guest appearance. With Chief Conductor Andris Nelsons conducting and works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Brahms on the podium, audiences can look forward to the finest musical artistry again this season. In their core repertoire, the Leipzig orchestra is unsurpassed thanks to its warm sound and simultaneously excellent and radiantly cast wind soloists.

Gewandhausorchester / Seong-Jin Cho / Andris Nelsons

Cho-Liang Lin, Jon Kimura Parker & Clive Greensmith

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

An afternoon of irresistible, intriguing, soulfully-expressed music performed by Maestro Daniel Stewart and musical friends.

Danny & Friends

Cabrillo College

Concert in Tokyo

ARK Hills

The Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra is the oldest continuously operating orchestra in the state of Oregon. From its inception in 1906 as a collegiate orchestra composed of nine members, the symphony has grown into a full symphonic orchestra performing 3 major classical concerts, a holiday concert, and a children’s concert each season. Professional musicians from throughout the Willamette Valley are joined by talented community members, OSU faculty, and OSU students representing a wide span of majors across campus. Repertoire from recent seasons includes Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe,” and Brahms’ Fourth Symphony.

Corvallis-OSU Symphony Presents: Fall Concert

Oregon State University

Lili Boulanger was a versatile child prodigy. At 19, she became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, France's highest composition award. Unfortunately, Boulanger was chronically ill and plagued by pain—she died at the early age of 24. "D'un soir triste" (One Sad Evening...) was one of her last compositions, a modern, fascinating sound sculpture, somber, dramatic, then mystically light. The composer was unable to write the work herself. She dictated it to her sister Nadia, who would become a famous piano and composition teacher.

Enthusiastic

Bochumer Symphoniker

Alexander Krichel is one of today's most sophisticated pianists, according to broadcaster NDR Kultur. For in him, "intellect and emotion, head and heart, meet." Our "Artist in Residence" thus reveals a soul mate with Johannes Brahms. Like no other composer before him, he strove in his piano concertos for the ideal fusion of pianist and orchestra, for the perfect synthesis of concertante and symphonic elements. He achieved this impressively in his Second Piano Concerto. Initially, the piano and orchestra are finely balanced against each other, then the music becomes more energetic and the symphonic structure more visible. In the Andante, Brahms introduces a second solo instrument, the cello, and pushes the pianist into the background. The music flows song-like and melodic, is enlivened by the piano, and the delicate instrumentation lends it a chamber music charm.

3. Classical Music on Sunday

Exhibition Hall 4

Two of the world’s most celebrated musicians, Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan, join forces for a breathtaking recital. This dynamic duo brings an unparalleled level of passion, technique and artistry to the stage.

Alisa Weilerstein, cello & Inon Barnatan, piano

Clayton State University

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Greatly admired for his years with the Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarneri Quartet, cellist Peter Wiley makes his annual PCMS appearance—this time in recital with Anna Polonsky, “a chamber musician of exceptional refinement” (New York Times). At the heart of this concert are two masterpieces for cello and piano by Brahms and Mendelssohn. Brahms’s first cello sonata has its roots firmly planted in the music of the past—almost as if he was turning his back on his wild, young self. Mendelssohn’s second cello sonata also demonstrates the pathos of the Romantic period, while remaining grounded in the tenets of Classicism inherited from Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven

Peter Wiley, cello Anna Polonsky, piano

 Benjamin Franklin Hall

Brahms’ high-spirited Symphony No. 3 anchors this bold and lyrical program. Music Director Laureate Marin Alsop and French-Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović unite their dynamic energy in Khachaturian’s vibrant Violin Concerto, marking Radulović’s highly-anticipated BSO debut.

Alsop Conducts Brahms 3

The Music Center at Strathmore

Bach & Brahms

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Brahms Violin Concerto

Riverview Theatre

Featuring Sharon Roffman, Violin | Sharon Roffman returns to Longmont to perform Brahms’ beloved Violin Concerto, and your Longmont Symphony performs one of Prokofiev’s most enduring works, Symphony No. 5. Composed in 1944 as Russian troops were advancing on Nazi forces, this symphony expresses heroism, tragedy, and the resilience of the human spirit. Prices for this performance range from $15 - $48 (plus fees).

Prokofiev & Brahms: Triumph & Tragedy

Skyline High School

As part of the current Musethica session, the participating musicians gave a total of ten concerts in social institutions throughout Vienna, bringing music to life for people who otherwise rarely have access to classical concerts. The festive conclusion will be the concert in the Wappensaal of Vienna City Hall, where the developed program will be presented in a special setting.

Closing concert of the Musethica Session

Vienna City Hall

The Brevard Symphony Youth Orchestra (BSYO) joins the BSO for an exciting side-by-side performance of Strauss’ On the Beautiful Blue Danube. The BSO then continues with Brahms’ passionate Symphony No. 3 and acclaimed violinist Sirena Huang returns for a rousing finale with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. In addition to this matinee performance, there will be a 7:30 p.m. evening performance later in the day.

Beethoven, Brahms, and the Blue Danube

King Center for the Performing Arts

In this concert, the Jiayi-April Duo performs works by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. The program is titled " In the Mirror of the Soul – Sound Worlds Between Classical and Romantic Periods . "

Duo Jiayi-April @ Young Talents

Wien Museum Schubert's Birthplace

Three great composers have been brought together for this concert, who turn formative biographical stages – whether wrestling with death or saying goodbye to loved ones or working through role models – into music.

3rd Symphony Concert

Staatstheater Mainz

Join the Grand Rapids Symphony as conductor Marcelo Lehninger takes us on a journey starting out with Loco, a must hear from Jennifer Higdon. Continue through the motions as the orchestra plays composer Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.2 ("The Little Train of the Caipira") and concludes with composer Brahms and his Symphony No. 4.

Madness in Motion: From Loco to Brahms

DeVos Performance Hall

When the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig visits Antwerp, musical magic is guaranteed. Under the baton of the celebrated Andris Nelsons, this world-renowned orchestra delivers a programme of both refinement and emotional depth. Haydn’s The Philosopher opens contemplatively, blending serenity with subtle wisdom. Star pianist Seong-Jin Cho, Chopin Competition winner, brings Mendelssohn’s sparkling Piano Concerto No. 1 to life with technical brilliance and poetic charm. The evening crescendos with Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, a romantic masterpiece of grand melodies and profound emotion. Don’t miss this legendary orchestra in the stunning Elisabeth Hall – where history, class, and tradition unite.

Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Queen Elisabeth Hall

With this concert, Sir Donald Runnicles assumes his position as chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic and simultaneously opens our British Festival. The evening, full of European and British music history, begins with Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis," a deeply emotional and majestic piece that highlights the beauty of the English music tradition. William Walton's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra puts the larger sister of the violin in the spotlight. With virtuosic solo passages and dynamic orchestral accompaniment, this piece creates goosebump moments and showcases the viola in all its versatility and expressiveness. The crowning finale is Johannes Brahms' Fourth Symphony, a masterpiece that initially faced challenges at its inception. Its beginning appeared too abstract to contemporaries. Today, 140 years after its creation, the poetry of this beginning, the exuberance of the third movement, and the solemnity of the finale make Brahms' Fourth one of the most beloved symphonies of all time.

Sir Donald with Brahms

Welcome to a musical celebration at the Schumann family home, a house filled with children, sheet music, and romantic music by Gabriela Ortiz, Brahms – and, not least, by Clara herself.

To Clara Schumann

Frequent guest conductor Dima Slobodeniouk leads this celebration of Caribbean composers, beginning with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuban American Tania León’s BSO-commissioned Time to Time, whose title reveals the composer’s characteristic preoccupation with duration and rhythm. Puerto Rico-born Roberto Sierra wrote his effervescent, jazz- and Latin-tinged concerto especially for James Carter’s lyricism and technical prowess on both soprano and tenor sax. Johannes Brahms’ Second Symphony is considered among his warmest, most pastoral works.

Brahms Symphony No. 2

Boston Symphony Orchestra

A grand program, weighty and deeply immersed in Romanticism: ultimate masterpieces by Brahms and Bruckner, interpreted by artists who have engaged with these works more intensely than almost anyone else. Bruckner dedicated his last symphony "to the dear Lord"—it doesn't get any lesser than that. The Austrian Manfred Honeck is among the most important Bruckner conductors of our time. He received three Grammy nominations in 2020 for his recording of Bruckner's Ninth with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; he simply finds the perfectly balanced approach to the grand symphonic architecture of this music. Leonidas Kavakos' recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto was no less celebrated, and here, too, balance is central: his interpretation is "the best to appear on CD in years," wrote the music magazine The Guardian. The Brahms concerto, the violinist himself says, is not comparable to other violin concertos—the violin here doesn't merely have to sing melodically. "Here we have this truly incredible connection with the orchestra. It has to sound as homogeneous as possible."

Bruckner 9

Alte Oper

Ottensamer, Soltani & Bax

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

This chamber concert takes the audience on an exciting journey through the world of violin sonatas, from the Classical period (Mozart, Beethoven) through the Romantic period (Brahms) to the modern era (Hindemith). It's interesting to observe how differently the composers handled the two instruments and their musical interplay, which was certainly also due to their personal relationships with the instrument: Mozart and Hindemith were also violinists themselves, while Beethoven and Brahms were pianists.

1st Chamber Concert

Kunsthaus Meyenburg

St. Crucis

With a varied and original choice of music, exchanges and a convivial atmosphere with the musicians, the Apéro series offers unique and privileged encounters. The program features romantic trios and sextets.

Sérénades Romantiques

Palais Montcalm

Salzburg-London Piano Trio Collaboration

Mozarteum Foundation

Joseph Haydn shows his entertaining side in the best sense of the word in his famous Trio in G major, which he composed in London in 1795. Haydn had been Kapellmeister at the court of the Esterházy family for almost thirty years. There he also became acquainted with original Hungarian dance music, which he presented to the delighted London audience in the last movement of the trio, the Rondo all’Ongarese. Zoltán Kodály had a completely different view of Hungarian folk music. He did not look for the temperamental element in it, but rather - like his colleague Béla Bartók - discovered a “Hungarian style“ on his research trips, “free of any sentimentality” and “superfluous ornamentation”. This is exactly what Kodály adopted in his second string quartet, which he composed between 1916 and 1918: a work of great seriousness and almost archaic power. In his Piano Quartet No. 1, on the other hand, Johannes Brahms indulges in Hungarian folklore, which the Hamburg-born composer also revived in his Hungarian Dances. In the final Rondo alla Zingarese of his quartet, Brahms sets sparks flying.

2. Chamber Music Concert

Liederhalle Cultural and Congress Center

The last Pro Musica concert of the year offers three very different, but incredibly integrated works. Brahms had actually put the work of composing on the shelf and had retired, but after hearing a concert with Meininger Hofkapelle's solo clarinetist, Richard Mühlfeld, he found the sheet music again and wrote four works for the talented clarinetist, which we will play at tonight's concert first of the works, namely the sublime clarinet trio in A minor.

Brahms & Prokofiev

Odense Concert Hall

Concert in Yokohama

Queen's Square Yokohama

Brahms’s first piano trio is a mighty work on a symphonic scale full of rich melodies and fabulous writing for the piano. Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten’s teacher, was a major composer in his own right and Helen Grime’s music became well known to Scottish audiences through her close association with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Lunchtime Concert: Brahms Piano Trio

Concert 2

La Jolla Woman's Club

Le Salon de Musiques, a compendium of world-renowned chamber music performers, takes place at the historic La Jolla Woman’s Club. The new season begins on October 12, 2025 and ends on June 14, 2026. Each event runs from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. The nine performances take place in an intimate stage-free environment, eliminating the boundaries between the artists and the audience. Introduced by a musicologist the concerts are followed by interactive discussions between the artists and the audience, sharing ideas and impressions about the music performed, while enjoying French champagne and a buffet featuring French cuisine.

Le Salon de Musiques

Boston Civic Symphony - Season Opener

New England Conservatory of Music

This award-winning ensemble made its New York debut in 2022 and returns now with works by Reena Esmail, Felix Mendelssohn, and Johannes Brahms.

Schneider Concerts Presents | Abeo Quartet

The New School

Known for “desert island-worthy” performances (The Guardian) and interpretations “full of poetry, joy and sorrow, realised to such perfection” (The Observer), the London-based Castalian Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the most dynamic, sophisticated young string quartets performing today. As Royal Philharmonic Society prizewinners and the resident ensemble at Oxford University, the Castalian Quartet is taking the international chamber music scene by storm. The quartet has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall to maximum security prisons to the Colombian rainforest, and now they bring their fierce sound to Logan Center in a program featuring works by Haydn, Janáček, and Brahms.

Castalian Quartet

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

Renowned for the sense of ease and joy she creates on stage, Baeva makes her Philharmonia debut sharing the beauty of Bruch’s soulful Violin Concerto. A perennial presence in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame, it’s the perfect showcase for her ‘sweetness of tone … elegance and power’ (The Strad).

Paavo Järvi conducts Bruch and Sibelius

Southbank Centre

The second symphony concert, in which the symphony orchestra performs Joseph-Maurice Ravel's "Kaddish" – a setting of the most important prayer in Judaism – oscillates between major and minor, hard and soft, exhilaration and sadness on the occasion of November 9th. Also featured is Antonín Dvořák's now-famous Cello Concerto in B minor, which the composer created under the influence of great grief for his childhood sweetheart, Josefine. A fluctuation between major and minor, tension and relaxation, characterizes Johannes Brahms's Third Symphony. "... all movements seem to be cast from one mold, a heartbeat, each movement a jewel!" praised Clara Schumann in 1884.

Major & Minor

Berliner Philharmonie

This esteemed British artist and Tanglewood favorite returns to our stage after his triumphant Schubert cycle. A specialist of the German canon, Lewis plays such masterworks framing a work written for him by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher.

Paul Lewis, piano Union College

Union College

This is your chance to hear Gil Shaham playing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto and Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler two exceptional works that combine musical beauty with historical depth, all brought to life by one of the world’s most renowned violinists. Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto is a passionate masterpiece that blends elements of African folk music with the classical tradition. Shaham’s virtuosic and expressive interpretation will bring out the work’s lyrical elegance, offering a fresh perspective on this often-overlooked gem of the violin repertoire.

Gil Shaham Returns

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Maestro Fawzi Haimor begins the festivities with a thrilling work by New Zealand-Greek composer John Psathas. Marin Symphony Principal Pianist John Wilson returns with two Liszt blockbusters, and we close with Brahms’s immortal Second Symphony.

Composer

Johannes Brahms

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 18, 2024 - Feb 11, 2026

Piano Concerto Finals · The Shepherd School of Music

Feb 9, 2025 - Jan 11, 2026

3rd Chamber Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Sep 21, 2025 - May 10, 2026

Chamber Concert / Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra · Elbphilharmonie

4 - 7 Dec, 2025

Till Eulenspiegel & Bullock Sings Aucoin · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

4 - 7 Dec, 2025

Romantic Treasures: Bruch & Brahms · Detroit Symphony Orchestra

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4 - 7 Dec, 2025

Romantic Treasures: Bruch & Brahms · Detroit Symphony Orchestra

4 - 7 Dec, 2025

Till Eulenspiegel & Bullock Sings Aucoin · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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