Composer

Your LPO returns to open the season with an unforgettable Opening Night featuring the festive energy and orchestral color of Anna Clyne’s Masquerade. The evening continues with the lush, sweeping romanticism of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a work of unparalleled passion and virtuosity. We conclude this grand debut with the profound depth and monumental power of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, marking a triumphant return to the Orpheum Theater.

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Opening Night: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Orpheum Theater

Four decades of musical excellence: 40 years ago, on September 14, 1986, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall was opened – with a program of romantic classics and contemporary music.

Anniversary concert - 40 years of the Cologne Philharmonic

Cologne Philharmonie

Four decades of musical excellence: 40 years ago, on 14 September 1986, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall opened its doors – with a programme featuring Romantic classics and contemporary music.

Anniversary concert Cologne Philharmonic Hall

The Montpellier Occitanie National Orchestra makes its return with a Finnish conductor with a meteoric rise: Eva Ollikainen, winner of the Jorma Panula Competition and artistic director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, conducts a program of contrasting brilliance.

Back-to-school concert

Opéra Comédie

Hans Werner Henze had already become a legend during his lifetime. To mark the centenary of his birth, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester conducted by Alan Gilbert marks its debut at Musikfest Berlin alongside pianist Tamara Stefanovich with a performance of Henze’s Preludes for piano, tapes and orchestra with the enigmatic title Tristan. This is poignant funeral music containing quotations from works such as Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 which also features in this concert.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Berliner Philharmoniker

Acclaimed as an “outstanding ensemble…cohesive yet full of temperament” (The New York Times), the Verona Quartet has firmly established itself amongst the most distinguished ensembles on the chamber music scene today. The group’s singular sense of purpose most recently earned them Chamber Music America’s coveted 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, and a reputation for its “bold interpretive strength, robust characterization and commanding resonance” (Calgary Herald). The Quartet serves on the faculty of the Oberlin College and Conservatory as the Quartet-in-Residence. In addition to its position at Oberlin, the Quartet holds residencies at Nova Scotia’s Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance and North Carolina’s Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle. As committed advocates of diverse programming, the Verona Quartet curates the UpClose Chamber Music Series on behalf of the COT, electrifying audiences from concert halls to craft breweries with their “sensational, powerhouse performance[s]” (Classical Voice America).

VERONA QUARTET with ALEXANDER FITERSTEIN, clarinet

Maverick Concert Hall

The Royal Danish Orchestra’s chamber concerts bring together celebrated masterpieces and rare gems of the chamber repertoire. Meet the musicians at close quarters in the foyer at Takkelloftet, with views across Copenhagen Harbour.

Chamber Music by Three Great Masters

Royal Danish Opera

Called “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “rock stars of the classical music world" (Miami Herald), Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe work in sync to unearth the essence of each piece they play from their genre-transcending repertoire, testing the boundaries of their instrument. That special alchemy immediately captivates audiences all over the world.

Anderson & Roe

Tippet Rise Art Center

“An artist of extraordinary magnetism” (Daily Telegraph), Yorkshire pianist Sarah Beth Briggs has enjoyed a distinguished career both on stage and in the recording studio. She returns to the Playhouse for an afternoon of glittering piano favourites.

Piano Classics

Sheffield Theatres

According to Henze, his concerto Musen Siziliens, which premiered in 1966 as part of the Berliner Festwochen, was intended to “be fun” – both for the audience and the performers. Johannes Brahms must have been thinking on similar lines when experimenting with multiple permutations of “Viennese” three-four time in his Liebeslieder waltzes for voices and four-hand piano. The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin will perform both works at the Musikfest Berlin together with the piano duo GrauSchumacher who in the words of the Süddeutsche Zeitung have “perfected four-hand piano-playing”, accompanied by musicians of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie conducted by Gregor Meyer. As an atmospheric opener, Henze’s otherworldly, mysterious Notturno sets the tone.

RIAS Kammerchor Berlin I

Berliner Philharmonie

Everyone wants to book him right now: Alexandre Kantorow, the pianist born in 1997 who, seven years ago, became the first French winner of the Gold Medal at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and received the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award in 2023. He has already performed with such world-class orchestras as the Berlin and New York Philharmonics and played Ravel’s Jeux d’eau in pouring rain at the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games — an artist who captivates audiences with the poetry of his interpretations. For his Lucerne Festival debut, Kantorow turns to one of his favorite composers: Johannes Brahms, whose First Piano Concerto seems almost written for eleven or twelve fingers, so formidable are its challenges. But Kantorow fears neither the massive chords nor the filigree passagework. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck then present a milestone of the Russian repertoire: Dmitri Shostakovich’s multilayered Fifth Symphony. With this work, written after being publicly denounced by Stalin’s “cultural guardians,” Shostakovich attempted to step out of the line of fire and wrote a bombastic, triumphal finale. But the real message can be heard between the lines.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honeck | Alexandre Kantorow

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Chief conductor Krzysztof Urbański dedicates the first symphony concert of the season to one of the great classics of the concert repertoire: Richard Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra ). Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical work of the same name, which deals with the emergence of a superman and the eternal cycle of becoming and passing away, Strauss created a musical cosmos whose suggestive power has also found its way into films such as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey .

Thus spoke zarathustra

Casino Bern

She was born in 1941, he in 1989: two generations stand between the legendary pianist Martha Argerich and the young Israeli maestro Lahav Shani — yet when they meet, sparks fly. When they first appeared together in Tel Aviv in 2019, with Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto, the applause seemed endless. Since then, they have made music together regularly: she at the keyboard and he on the podium. Or even in recitals for two pianos, or for four hands in encores — for Shani is himself a pianist of distinction. 

Munich Philharmonic | Lahav Shani | Martha Argerich

Radu Ratoi is the winner of the 2024 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. An extraordinary talent, he has been praised for his originality and virtuosity in the instruments, in both classical and contemporary repertoire. Ratoi continues to push the limits of the instrument through inventive transcriptions of Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, Liszt, and many more, extending the repertoire possibilities for the accordion.

Wander Series: Radu Ratoi, accordion

The Cottonwood Campus

The Royal Swedish Opera's traditional participation in Parkteatern's annual program: every summer cultural experiences are offered on outdoor stages around Stockholm - completely free.

The Opera in the park

Vitabergsparken

As part of their International Festival residency, players from the Berliner Philharmoniker perform a delightful programme of chamber works from the 19th and 20th centuries. Piano, strings, clarinet and horn join forces for a memorable close of The Queen’s Hall series.

Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker

The Queen's Hall

For his recital, our “artiste étoile” Augustin Hadelich has planned something special: he will appear with Seong-Jin Cho, South Korea’s superstar pianist, for the very first time — world-class meets world-class. The program could hardly be lovelier: the delicate, deeply romantic Violin Romance by the American composer Amy Beach; Leoš Janáček’s earthy, passionate Sonata with its wild dance rhythms that tear apart any sense of regular meter; and Sergei Prokofiev’s weightless D major Sonata, written in the midst of World War II yet sounding anything but apocalyptic. The evening opens with Johannes Brahms and his melody-rich G major Sonata, which contains a famous song quotation. Hadelich says he came to understand this composer anew after immersing himself in his chamber music, and in general he considers making music in small ensembles the best training for performing with orchestra and, more broadly, for engaging with people. As he puts it, this is how you learn to listen, to respond, to enter into dialogue. A school for life.

Augustin Hadelich | Seong-Jin Cho

Warm, early works by Schubert and Brahms open and close this season’s penultimate program, providing a rich setting for the centerpiece of the evening: the world premiere—by pianist Juho Pohjonen, violinist John Storgårds, and cellist Anssi Karttunen—of a Festival-commissioned piano trio by Magnus Lindberg, hailed as “one of the major voices of 21st-century composition” by The Times.

Schubert & Brahms

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Join these first-class musicians led by the ‘powerful and dynamic’ (BBC Music Magazine) violinist Vilde Frang, celebrating music from Béla Bartók alongside various folk songs and dances. Her fellow performers include Benjamin and Salamon Eredics from award-winning Hungarian folk band Söndorgő – described by Songlines Magazine as ‘one of Europe’s most versatile and exciting bands’.

Vilde Frang & Friends

Chamber music by Shulamit Ran, Brahms - and the Mendelssohn Octet.

Sweet and Spicy

Lincoln City Cultural Center

A Musical Gift- FREE Concert

Our Rising Stars programme invites outstanding up-and-coming performers to The Queen’s Hall stage. They perform alongside their internationally acclaimed mentors, soprano Louise Alder and pianist James Baillieu. The new recruits for 2026 curate and perform the repertoire for the first half of the concert.

Rising Stars of Voice with Louise Alder

This all-Brahms recital by Kirill Gerstein—who’s been hailed as “a peerless performer” by The Guardian— includes two early works: a scherzo that's known for its youthful vigor and virtuosity and a sonata that stands out for its stunning symphonic scale.

Kirill Gerstein Piano Recital

New Mexico Museum of Art

Violinist Jennifer Frautschi and pianist Katia Skanavi play Mozart’s virtuosic B-flat Sonata for Violin and Piano—which the composer wrote for a performance he gave with a famous Italian violinist in Vienna—and both musicians feature again in Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, a work that’s especially known for its spirited final movement. To open the program, the Verona Quartet—called “outstanding” by The New York Times—premieres a Festival-commissioned quartet by Alex Paxton, who’s been hailed as “a magician of sound” by the Financial Times and whose major awards include the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize.

Mozart & Brahms

Influential 20th-century Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu’s wonderfully eerie and evocative Rain Spell opens this wide-ranging program, which includes one of Brahms’s last works—his masterful Clarinet Trio, featuring legendary clarinetist David Shifrin—as well as the New Mexico premiere of Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug’s Fantasy for Clarinet, Viola, Cello, and Percussion.

Brahms & Neikrug

David Shifrin and the Verona Quartet perform Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, one of the composer’s final works and one that’s often cited as his greatest piece of chamber music. The program also includes a gorgeous harp showpiece by Ravel—his Introduction and Allegro—and an intriguing piano quartet by Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug called Green Torso, which was inspired by a bronze sculpture by the Santa Fe–based Hopi artist Dan Namingha.

Brahms & Ravel

High Festival Level

Imperial Baths

Internationally acclaimed horn player Ben Goldscheider joins forces with violinist Callum Smart and pianist Richard Uttley in a dynamic and wide-ranging collaboration that has defined their partnership since 2017. Together, the trio combine a deep commitment to the core chamber repertoire with an equally strong dedication to expanding it, actively championing new works and shaping the future of the horn trio format.

Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley

Ronnie Scott's

Louis Langrée, known for his “interpretations rich in specificity and color, to a degree that can impress even seasoned musicians” (The New York Times), returns to the Bowl with selections from Bizet’s lyrical L’Arlésienne and sensuous Carmen suites.

Brahms & Bizet

Hollywood Bowl

Elevate Piano Festival

Hotel Imperial

This intimate program features two lovely duets, including Falla’s folk-song-inspired Suite populaire espagnole—which evokes Spain’s rich musical and cultural landscape and here features cellist Paul Watkins and pianist Nicolas Namoradze—and one of Brahms’s final works: the F-minor Sonata for Viola and Piano, a late masterpiece performed by Paul Neubauer and Namoradze. The program also includes Dvořák’s elegant Terzetto, a mix of mournful and fiery music that’s scored for the unusual combination of two violins and a viola.

Brahms & Dvořák

The relationships between Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms were intimate and complicated – and they shaped the trajectory of classical music forever. In an exploration of friendship and inspiration, Brahms’ fiery Hungarian Rhapsodies are followed by Clara Schumann’s tender Piano Concerto with Robert Schumann’s soaring Symphony No. 2 capping off this trio of musical genius.

Brahms & The Schumanns

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

Violinist Njioma Grevious brings her "vibrant and compelling" artistry to the Music Room following her previous performances as a founding member of the Abeo Quartet (2023-24 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence).  She is a winner of both the Robert F. Smith First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2023 Sphinx Competition and received a prestigious 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has an active solo career and has made recent debuts with the Chicago and National Symphony Orchestras.

Njioma Grevious, violin & Andrew Goodridge, piano

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Toronto, ON

University of Toronto

The music of this evening will connect styles, worlds, and personalities of the contemporary music scene.

Festival Krumlov: Moon & Kačo / Brahms

Castle Riding Hall

Setting unfamiliar works alongside such repertoire landmarks as the three sonatas in this evening’s programme comes naturally to Maria Ioudenitch, who’s passionate about taking her audience on enriching musical journeys. The Russian-born American violinist, supported by rising star Roman Borisov, starts this evening from the perspective of two formidable miniatures by Lili Boulanger, whose creativity was ended all too soon by illness and her tragic early death.

Maria Ioudenitch violin; Roman Borisov piano

Wigmore Hall

Formed by alumni of the National Repertory Orchestra, this quartet brings together musicians whose shared roots at the NRO have evolved into dynamic professional careers. In this program, they draw from American narratives that play a critical role in the ongoing evolution of our nation’s history and musical character. Through works that reflect migration, identity, tradition, and transformation, the ensemble creates a throughline between past and present.

Chamber Concert

Riverwalk Center

Semyon Bychkov's performance is generously sponsored by James and Marguerite Rigby.



Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is a work of contrasts, veering from bold orchestral statements to exuberant dances and concluding with an homage to Baroque master J.S. Bach. Semyon Bychkov conducts this symphonic classic alongside Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto. Composed under the watchful eye of the Soviet Union, this virtuosic showpiece requires a violinist of Karen Gomyo’s caliber to probe its mysterious and emotional depths.

Brahms & Shostakovich

Blossom Music Center

The Folkestone Symphony Orchestra returns with another of its much-loved Summer Prom concerts, raising funds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, kindly sponsored by The Brelade-Harman Trust.

Folkestone Symphony Summer Prom Concert

Leas Cliff Hall

A fitting farewell, this programme journeys through the heart of Central Europe, from the vivid landscapes of Smetana's Má vlast to the nostalgic beauty of Butterworth's Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, before culminating in Brahms' magnificent Fourth Symphony – a work of profound intensity and breathtaking grandeur.

Fishguard Music Festival – Smetana & Brahms with Welsh National Orchestra

St. Davids Cathedral

Folk influences, a heartfelt literary connection and some inventive instrumentation make this suite of pieces a fascinating expansion of the typical chamber music soundworld. Don’t miss this chance to hear from GTMF musicians who don’t always get to share the spotlight.

Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Brahms & Dvořák

Jackson Hole High School

The Spanish conductor with “more [charisma] than anybody else” (Bachtrack), reunites with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his first-ever performance on the Hollywood Bowl stage. Roberto González-Monjas leads Brahms’ fourth and final symphony, a tragic yet profound piece that critic Eduard Hanslick compared to a dark well: “The longer we look into it, the more brightly the stars shine back.”

Three icons of Romanticism, an emotional intermezzo, a world-famous violin concerto and the sounds of the Rhein will make up the program of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Montpellier. The first notes of the concert will be played in a commemoration: Brahms’s lament seeking calm will be performed in the orchestration and in memory of Victor Aviat, principal oboist of the orchestra, who passed away in May. The Mendelssohn concerto in the middle, comprising a challenging opening movement, a lyrical aria and a finale evoking A Midsummer Night’s Dream will feature the soloist Renaud Capuçon, a returning guest artist for the BFO. The former concertmaster of Claudio Abbado will use his 1737 Guarnieri violin to share the deep and nuanced tones of the piece, while displaying the virtuosity which makes him a favorite of audiences and critics. The program will conclude with a Schumann symphony inspired by pleasant experiences and calling to mind a peaceful riverside excursion.

Tour: Montpellier Capuçon, Fischer

Le Corum

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine.

Summer Evenings III 2026

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

The concert begins with Mozart’s Trio in E major, a graceful and lyrical work highlighting his gift for chamber music. From there, the program moves to the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Maurice Ravel, the great French composer of the early 20th century, whose music shimmers with color and atmosphere.

Saratoga Springs, NY

Skidmore College

Adrian Brendel’s eloquent artistry, praised by the Guardian for its ‘quiet, unobtrusive musicality,’ will be familiar to Wigmore Hall audiences, thanks not least to his performances as a long-serving member of the Nash Ensemble and frequent collaborations with like-minded artists. He is joined this evening by Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon, a consummate chamber musician renowned for the clarity and singing line of his playing.

Adrian Brendel cello; Dénes Várjon piano

Neuland

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud

Full focus on the music: Every year, several members of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra travel to Italy, more precisely to the picturesque little town of Montepulciano, not far from Siena. There, surrounded by the sun-drenched Tuscan landscape, is the Academy of Music and Performing Arts, where the musicians can intensively hone selected works that they will present to the Duisburg audience upon their return from the south. Fittingly, this time's program includes Brahms's cheerful String Quintet No. 2, which he composed during his summer vacation in Bad Ischl. This will be accompanied by Mendelssohn Bartholdy's String Quintet No. 1, composed in the spring of 1826, when he was 17 years old.

Montepulciano

Theater Duisburg

2025 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Aristo Sham brings his "lucid and gripping" artistry to the intimate Music Room for a program centered on the transformative transcriptions of Ferruccio Busoni. This afternoon recital highlights Sham’s technical mastery through a curated selection of Brahms character pieces, including the soulful Intermezzo in A Major and the spirited Capriccio in C Major. The second half of the performance focuses on Busoni's iconic arrangements, featuring the monumental Bach Chaconne and Chopin’s Variations on Prelude in C minor. As the newest Cliburn winner, Sham continues the competition's legacy of elite pianism with a performance that balances late-Romantic introspection with towering virtuosity.

Aristo Sham, piano

Renowned for the intense focus of his music making and what the Guardian calls ‘the gentle, unshowy authority of his stage manner’, Konstantin Lifschitz combines the best of the great Russian tradition with tremendous poetic refinement. He begins with the Romantic music of Robert Schumann, before plunging into the headlong drama of Liszt’s First Mephisto Waltz and the striking contrasts of Brahms’s late Fantasien, which recall the fluctuating moods of Schumann’s youthful Kreisleriana.

Konstantin Lifschitz piano

Cornelius Meister conducts Strauss, Dvořák and Brahms

Teatro La Fenice

In summer, we always look forward to guest performances at festivals in charming spa towns – and this time, under the direction of our principal conductor, we are fittingly presenting an all-Brahms program with pieces that also sprang from idyllic stays. The Hamburg native and later adopted Viennese composer enjoyed working on his compositions in scenic locations. He frequently traveled to Lake Wörthersee, for example: so many melodies, he remarked with a twinkle in his eye, were floating about there that one had to be careful not to "tread on them." He captured some of these melodies so playfully for his most important symphonic and concertante works that even his contemporaries perceived them as "moments of the highest poetic beauty" – or raved: "It's nothing but blue skies, babbling brooks, sunshine, and cool green shade!" After Brahms had spent his holidays in the Vienna Woods, his music was described as extremely "musical.

Guest at the Kissinger Summer Festival

Regentenbau

Romanian composer Tiberiu Olah’s Sonata for clarinet solo distils the energy and mystery of primeval folk music into a short work of immense character. Julian Bliss sets it in company with the lyricism of the second of the two Clarinet sonatas Brahms composed in his final years. In the programme’s second half, he and James Baillieu explore the melancholy moods of Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op. 73 and restless contrasts of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata in F minor.

Julian Bliss clarinet; James Baillieu piano

Join us for an unforgettable concert in the heart of Yorkshire as we take part in HACS Harrogate Music Festival. Experience the brilliance of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist (2024-26) Hana Chang in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Under the baton of conductor Ben Glassberg, we’ll also be performing Farrenc’s Overture No. 1, and Brahms’s beloved First Symphony.

HACS Harrogate Music Festival presents: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Hall, Harrogate

Kindred spirits Matthew Barley and Mishka Rushdie Momen share a refreshing attitude to thinking about and performing music, always ready to reject tired conventions yet alive to the essential spirit that unites the best of past and present. Their programme revels in the cello’s singing line, present in Barley’s elegant transcriptions of Lieder by Robert Schumann and the lyrical warmth and expressive gravity of Brahms’s First Cello Sonata.

Matthew Barley cello; Mishka Rushdie Momen piano

Our programme will be giving a nod to mark the semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary of American Independence.

St Giles Orchestra July 2026 Concert

St Michael & All Angels Church Summertown

We begin with Brahms’ ‘Tragic Overture’, which confronts darkness head-on. Composed in 1880 as the sombre counterpart to his ‘Academic Festival Overture’, it whips up a storm of emotional energy, embodying what Brahms called “the serious side of life”. 

Next is Sibelius’ haunting ‘Valse Triste’. Originally composed for a 1903 play, this melancholic waltz depicts a dying woman’s fevered dream, where she dances with memories and ghosts. At the end, four solo violins add a fragile, otherworldly coda. 

Shostakovich’s monumental Seventh Symphony completes the arc from despair to defiance. It was composed during the 1941 siege of Leningrad, a time of unimaginable suffering for citizens. This epic work transforms the nightmare of war – represented by the famous ‘invasion theme’ in the first movement – into ultimate victory. 

From Tragedy to Triumph

Smith Square Hall

Ever since ARD dedicated a multi-part documentary series to the cellist, Anastasia Kobekina has been one of Germany's most well-known young musicians. With her brilliance on the instrument and her electrifying stage presence, the Leonard Bernstein Award winner has won the hearts of her audience. Her Blaibach debut promises pure cello bliss.

Anastasia Kobekina & Basel Chamber Orchestra

Blaibach Concert Hall

The love for music is in Czech genes. There is good reason for the saying: Every Czech is a musician. Czech musicians are rightly considered to be the absolute best in the interpretation of classical music in the world. Do you want to meet them live?Come to a concert of the Prague Music Orchestra chamber ensemble, which originated in the beginning of the 21st century and is one of the most renowned Czech musical ensembles today. It is distinguished by a unique, cultivated sound and it is a representative of highly appreciated interpretation art.

The Four Seasons, Gypsy Airs op.20

Municipal House

German-born Rolf Schulte, whom The New Yorker has called “one of the most distinguished violinists of our day,” started playing the violin at age five under his father’s tutelage. He later studied with Kurt Schäffer at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf, attended Yehudi Menuhin’s summer course in Gstaad, Switzerland, and studied with Franco Gulli at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena before moving to the United States to study with Ivan Galamian at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. At age 16, he made his orchestral debut with the Philharmonia Hungarica in Cologne, playing Mendelssohn’s Concerto. Under the auspices of Young Concert Artists he gave his New York debut at Town Hall to great acclaim.

Rolf Schulte, violin; James Winn, piano

The Chapel Restoration

Sonata-Trio-Suite

Bochumer Symphoniker

Chamber Concert “Italia and Germania”

Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

Munich Residence

Top emerging UK & international conductors showcase their talents with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as the finale of a 5-day course with Martyn Brabbins, featuring Brahms’ Symphony No.3, Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto and the premiere of RCS composer Andrew Jacob’s In the Hall of the Clockwork Dancer.

RCS & BBC SSO Emerging Conductors Showcase 2026

Glasgow City Hall

The relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms is one of the most fascinating triangular relationships in music history. It was characterized by deep friendship, profound artistic admiration, and emotional intimacy that—one might hope—always remained within the bounds of social conventions. Robert Schumann, the visionary composer and music writer, and Clara Schumann, the exceptional pianist and passionate interpreter of his works, had a marriage marked by intense musical collaboration, but also by Robert's recurring mental health crises. When the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms entered the couple's lives in 1853—young, brimming with creative energy, and possessing a talent that Robert celebrated with ecstatic enthusiasm as opening up "new paths" in music—a particularly close bond developed between the three of them. Robert treated the young Brahms with fatherly affection, nurtured his talent, and recognized his extraordinary genius, while Clara saw him as a kindred spirit and intellectual companion. Whether a love ever developed between her and Brahms that transcended the boundaries of friendship remains uncertain—a shadowy, fascinating mystery that continues to surround music history.

ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN VS. JOHANNES BRAHMS – The Shadow of Love

Landestheater Eisenach

Stadthalle Gotha

Renowned "Renaissance woman" Hélène Grimaud returns to Caramoor for a deeply poetic recital exploring the profound emotional landscapes of the "Three Bs"—Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Known for a visceral intensity that has captivated Caramoor audiences since her 1998 debut and a celebrated 2015 residency, Grimaud brings her trademark technical control to a program of autumnal masterpieces. From the intimate, variation-rich Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 to the nostalgic textures of Brahms’ Fantasies and the monumental architecture of Bach’s Chaconne, this performance showcases the same unapologetically personal artistry that defines her work as both a world-class pianist and a dedicated wildlife conservationist.

Hélène Grimaud,  piano

Venetian Theater at Caramoor

Tonight’s event “reconstructs” the programme of a concert on 7 March 1897. It was the last time Brahms attended a public performance of his own music. That evening the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Hans Richter, were to play the three pieces here in what may seem like a curious order to modern audiences (particularly given the ending of ‘La Chasse’…)

Vienna 1897: Brahms’ Last Concert

Southbank Centre

Brahms’ Fourth Symphony is music that ‘is some of the darkest and deepest in the 19th century’ according to The Guardian. In fact, Brahms’ inner circle had advised him against releasing it publicly. However, at the concert in 1897, there was reportedly rapturous applause after each movement.

Vienna 1897: Brahms' Last Concert

Vyšehrad is a sacred place where our people go on festive occasions. For the first time, the Prague Symphony went here in June 2024 for its 90th birthday. For the second time, the FOK will fly here from the Municipal House on Dvořák's wings. With its chief conductor Tomáš Netopil, it will perform the New World.

Open air Concert in Vyšehrad

Vyšehrad Garden

The season finale will be breathtaking: the cycle of all Brahms symphonies will be completed, and Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto delivers pure drama. A somber beginning, a frenzied scherzo, an epic passacaglia, and a furious finale—Shostakovich has arguably created one of the greatest solo concertos of the 20th century. This is music of existential importance that truly gets under your skin. The internationally renowned violinist Vadim Gluzman is the ideal soloist for this bravura piece. Brahms' Fourth Symphony completes his symphonic oeuvre. In his own words, he "wasn't at all eager to write a bad No. 4." And he wasn't—quite the opposite: the composer has created a milestone here. And just as the season began with Brahms, so it ends with him. Brahms, Bremen, and the Bremen Philharmonic belong inextricably together.

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 | Marko Letonja

The Bell, Bremen

The John Lewis Partnership Music Society invites you to an intimate experience of Johannes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. They present the composer’s own ‘London version’, featuring the exquisite four-hand piano accompaniment and its Voices in Partnership Choir.

While the traditional orchestral performance is beloved for its grand scale, this unique version – crafted by Brahms for its 1871 London premiere – offers a different, chamber-like intimacy. The vast orchestral palette is replaced with the percussive clarity of a single piano played by two performers, stripping away the dense textures, revealing the intricate beauty and transparency of the vocal lines.

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

Cadogan Hall 

Three Generations Of Passion

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

The Best of Classics

A century ago, this cliffside was a playground for the Inland Northwest’s most eccentric inventor, Royal Riblet. Music from Spokane Symphony musicians fills the scenic cliffside vineyards of Arbor Crest’s Cliff House Estate.

Spokane Symphony At Arbor Crest Winery

Arbor Crest Wine Cellars

The final concert requires an adequate program that will bring the season to its climax. Such a program shall feature works by the most influential composers in history who are of fundamental importance for our orchestra. We have listened to the music by Ludwig van Beethoven several times during the season, and at the last evening the time has come for his works for piano.

Beethoven. Brahms

Rudolfinum

The season closes with the irresistible fire and passion of music shaped by Romani traditions, which left an indelible mark on European composers. The romance, longing, and sense of freedom in these melodies found their way into some of the most beloved works of the repertoire. Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 39, with its famous “Gypsy” Rondo, dazzles in Hungarian style, while Brahms unleashes unbridled intensity in the torrential finale of his Piano Quartet No. 1. Ravel (Tzigane), Bartók (Romanian Dances), and Liszt (Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2) add their voices to this vibrant tradition. After the performance, join us for a festive reception—complete with a fortune teller to offer a lighthearted glimpse into your future. Our prediction: a brilliant season finale filled with inspired music and extraordinary performers.

Close Encounters With Music: Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartók, Liszt, Haydn, and Brahms Piano Quartet

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

Composer

Johannes Brahms

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 11 - Nov 15, 2026

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra · Teatro alla Scala

Apr 25, 2026 - Jun 12, 2027

Chamber Music · Wiener Staatsoper

Sep 21, 2026

Dvořák. Brahms · Prague Philharmonia

Sep 22, 2026

Little Gems from Geiko Music High School · Royal Academy of Music

Sep 22, 2026

On Tour in Shanghai · London Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Sep 17, 2026

Opening Night: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 · Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Sep 14, 2026

Anniversary concert - 40 years of the Cologne Philharmonic · WDR Sinfonieorchester

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