Composer

2nd Academic Concert 2025/26

Gewandhaus

1879 – 1899 – 1919: Three compositions from three eras, exactly 20 years apart. But that's not the only thing that connects them. All are closely linked to very specific individuals. With Le Tombeau de Couperin, Maurice Ravel creates a musical monument to one of the greatest composers of the French Baroque – François Couperin. In his Enigma Variations, Edward Elgar portrays friends and companions. But who lies behind these musical character studies was a mystery for a long time. That has long been revealed, but the magic remains. And Brahms's only violin concerto would be unthinkable without Joseph Joachim. The star violinist not only advised Brahms, he wrestled with him over every note. The result: one of the most popular works in violin literature. At the helm is Finnegan Downie Dear, one of the most promising conductors on the international scene, and the name of violinist Hana Chang is also worth remembering. This is the music of the future. And it sounds spectacular.

Ravel, Brahms, Elgar | Finnegan Downie Dear

The Bell, Bremen

Four great artists with a passion for chamber music have formed an exciting new quartet that is bound to become an audience favorite.  Each of them is known for wonderfully expressive playing, so it seemed that ESPRESSIVO! was the perfect name for this new quartet of piano and strings.

Espressivo! Piano Quartet

Public High School

Bach, Beethoven and Brahmsare sometimes called the three big B's of classical music. In the past, this could result in three plaster busts, which stood a little wobbly lined up on a piano. In this program, we will hear music by all three.

Classic giants

Louis de Geer konsert & kongress

Over the course of the next four years, the omnipresent conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at Carnegie Hall in an overview of the orchestral works of Johannes Brahms, including all of his concertos, overtures, and symphonies. UMS is proud to present the first of these concert offerings, which features the first and final works that Brahms composed for orchestra — his Symphony No. 1 and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra — performed by the 60-member Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

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Chamber Orchestra of Europe

University of Michigan

From the eventful French premiere of Body Cosmic to the relaxed classicism of César Franck, this concert opens up the palette of styles, with the diabolical Brahms' Concerto as pièce de résistance, magnified by Janine Jansen's infallible bow.

Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä

Philharmonie de Paris

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, one of the world’s most acclaimed chamber ensembles, join forces with Philadelphia Orchestra Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin for an unforgettable performance. Experience this dynamic partnership live in Philadelphia for the first time as they present an all-Brahms program, full of passion and virtuosity.  

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Faith - hope - love, these three famous terms from the Bible, they characterise Pēteris Vasks, the globally acclaimed composer from Latvia. Faith: clearly very important to him. Hope: never give up! But the most important thing for him: love! And so he writes modern classical music that goes straight to the heart. And yet his artistic credo is: music must never be »sweet«!

RIX Piano Quartet

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Man and his destiny – that is the theme underlying the sounds of the 2nd Academy Concert 2025–26. Even the opening chords make it clear that Johannes Brahms describes his most personal fears and hopes in his first piano concerto. With this mammoth work in D minor, he shattered all the boundaries that the audience, sworn to classical balance, could have imagined at the premiere in 1859. Pianist Daniil Trifonov is the ideal interpreter like no other today; he makes his debut with the Bavarian State Orchestra with this concerto. For Pyotr Tchaikovsky, any music that did not aspire to "pure tonal play" was program music: music that speaks of emotional stirrings, in which experiences and encounters linger. For his Fourth Symphony, he hinted at what motivated him while composing it: "This is fate, that fatal power which prevents the desire for happiness from reaching its goal, which jealously watches to ensure that well-being and peace are not full and unclouded, which hangs like the sword of Damocles over the head and continually poisons the soul. This power is invincible, and one can never conquer it" – but one should not stop fighting it either. Kirill Petrenko conducts this work for the first time in Munich. The return of our former chief conductor is, as always, eagerly awaited.

2nd Academy Concert: Kirill Petrenko

Max-Joseph-Platz

When Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky was relaxing on Lake Geneva in 1878, the idyllic setting inspired him to write one of his most beautiful works, the Violin Concerto in D major. The young violinist Mira Foron returns to the Stuttgart State Orchestra with this audience favorite. Two years ago, she thrilled the audience in the Liederhalle with Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. David Philip Hefti pursues a different solo concerto concept with Final(ment)e for two trumpets and orchestra. The work was created in 2021 as an atmospheric reference to Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, but is to be understood as an independent composition. Hefti initially has the soloists play at some distance from the orchestra, which results in an “intentional blurring of the interplay“. The composer works with a wide range of timbres, which he enhances by using flugelhorns, C trumpets and a piccolo trumpet. The ten Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms, which are played after the interval, are also dazzling. The Viennese by choice from Hamburg landed indestructible hits with them – as glowing as they are rousing.

3. Symphony Concert

Beethoven Hall (Beethovensaal)

The string quartet is considered the pinnacle of chamber music – and we can experience why this is so at performances by the Quatuor Ébène: In around two decades, an ensemble has grown that not only plays in the premier league of international quartets, but also regularly leaves audiences breathless with its unconditional courage to take risks and the intensity of its interpretations. Even supposedly well-known repertoire sounds refreshingly new and excitingly different with the Quatuor Ébène. For example, Joseph Haydn, who is considered the inventor of the genre. The program features one of the Viennese classic's late quartets, the String Quartet in G major, Op. 76 No. 1, in which he bundled all his achievements in this field, as a kind of legacy. The bar was thus set high for subsequent generations of composers, a fact that Johannes Brahms also felt: he spent around 20 years exploring the genre before presenting his first quartets to the public with Opus 51. Framed by the two German-speaking composers, the only string quartet by the Frenchman Maurice Ravel can be heard, which is full of wonderful sound effects.

Quatuor Ébène

CityPalais

Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character” (New York Times),  clarinetist Anthony McGill enjoys a dynamic international solo and chamber music career and is  principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic — the first African-American principal player in  the organization's history. He is the recipient of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize, one of classical  music’s most significant awards, and was named Musical America’s 2024 Instrumentalist of the  Year. American Stories, his album with the Pacifica Quartet, was nominated for a GRAMMY® for  Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. McGill appears as a soloist with top orchestras, including the New York and Los Angeles  Philharmonics, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, and Detroit  Symphony Orchestras. He performed alongside Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, premiering a piece by John Williams.  As a chamber musician, McGill is a collaborator of the Brentano, Daedalus, Guarneri, JACK,  Miró, Pacifica, Shanghai, Takács, and Tokyo Quartets, and performs with leading artists  including Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Gloria Chien, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham, Midori, Mitsuko Uchida, and Lang Lang. He serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School and is the Artistic Director for Juilliard’s Music  Advancement Program. He holds the William R. and Hyunah Yu Brody Distinguished Chair at the  Curtis Institute of Music. In 2020, McGill’s #TakeTwoKnees campaign protesting the death of George Floyd and historic racial injustice went viral. In 2023, he partnered with Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative to organize a classical music industry convening at EJI’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, in which leaders and artists in classical music examined America’s history of racial inequality and how this legacy continues to impact their work. He is a Backun Artist and performs exclusively on Backun Clarinets.

Anthony Mcgill, Clarinet Isidore String Quartet

The Town Hall

Sonata evening

Bochumer Symphoniker

The Barenboim-Said Academy opened in 2015 as a tangible extension of the spirit and mission of the WestEastern Divan Orchestra. Named after the orchestra's founders and leading figures, the Barenboim-Said Academy is dedicated to training a new generation of musicians.

Barenboim-Said Academy

Blaibach Concert Hall

Brahms has the spotlight in this symphonic and concerto program: Veronika Eberle and Jean-Guihen Queyras, along with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, are all passionate admirers of the German composer's work.

Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Carnegie Hall

Cité de la Musique

Brahms’ fiery Violin Concerto, with its sweeping melodies and emotional depth, comes to life through the artistry of returning guest violinist Geneva Lewis. Jimmy López’s Aino is a stirring tone poem of defiance and tragedy, while Strauss’ and Leoncavallo’s works are steeped in operatic beauty—all inspired by love, sacrifice, and youthful vitality.

Geneva Plays Brahms

Green Music Center

Acclaimed as a “masterful” soloist (San Diego Story), Aubree’s most recent solo appearances in 2023 include season openings of the Chamber Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall (di Vittorio), Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall (Morlot), Peace Orchestra Project (Mengoli), and Ridgefield Symphony with a pairing of the Barber and Esmail violin concertos. Other season highlights include performances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Teychenné), Columbus Symphony (Miller), Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra (Hoving), North Carolina Symphony (Prieto), Pacific Symphony (St. Clair), Des Moines Symphony (St. Clair), Amarillo Symphony (Jackson), Moldavian Philharmonic (Macek), Excelentia Madrid (Braunstein), Slovak Sinfonietta (Foron), Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra (Sachedina), New Haven Symphony (So), Puerto Rico Symphony (Valdés), and the Kontrapunktus Baroque Ensemble; in works by Brahms, Dvorak, Barber, Bruch, Korngold, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Weinberg, Haydn, Saint-Saens, Esmail, and Bach.

Defiance

Ridgefield High School

Such a powerful piano concerto had not been heard before. When Johannes Brahms premiered his First Piano Concerto in 1859, the audience was thrilled. Few knew how many years he had struggled to complete it. Initially, he wanted to write a sonata for two pianos, but that failed. Then he reworked his ideas for an orchestra, but he was still not satisfied. Finally, the saving idea came to him: to combine the orchestra and piano. Today, the piece is considered one of the most beautiful offerings of romantic music. Prokofiev's suites for Shakespeare's famous love story are also the result of a reworking, transforming the music from a complete ballet to pure orchestral music. He personally selected the most beautiful passages for this purpose. The result is like dramatic cinema for the ears...

Brahms Piano Concerto

Palace of Culture

The oboe's light lines soar into the ether, Stravinsky plays with our musical past – and with Brahms we land firmly in the hearth of sincerity.
Strauss, Stravinsky and Brahms: Three composers who, in their own way, are masters of painting with the entire symphonic palette.

Brahms 1

Aarhus Music Hall

Tonight's programme brings together three masterpieces, each with its own unique style. The first is solemn and intense, the next playful and elegant, and the last dramatic and virtuosic. The contrast between Mayer's mournful Overture , Schubert's charmingly youthful Symphony No. 3 and Brahms's emotionally profound  Violin Concerto makes for a dynamic and compelling evening. Each piece plays with shifts in dynamics and moods, and each is both intimate and powerful.

Schubert & Brahms

Amare

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Classical music on Sunday

Nikolaisaal

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

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

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

Gilbert Kalish and the Viano Quartet

Drew University

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

Pro Arte Sings Songs of Destiny

West Side Presbyterian Church

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

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

Concert in Seoul

Seoul 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

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

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

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

Concert in Tokyo

ARK Hills

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

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

Danny & Friends

Cabrillo College

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

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

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

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

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

Brahms Violin Concerto

Riverview Theatre

Bach & Brahms

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Composer

Johannes Brahms

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