Johannes Brahms Archive

Brahms’ second Intermezzo in B-flat minor, Andante non troppo e con molto espressione, possesses a kind of sorrow,  and it displays a more reflective mood. One may associate this piece with the diffuse glow of …

Johannes Brahms composed 4 symphonies, some songs, a Requiem in memory of his mother, Concertos for piano and for violin, and a diverse set of chamber music. On this interesting CD we hear Brahms’ Clarinet …

Johannes Brahms began to make sketches for his second piano concerto in 1878. However, the composer preferred to try it out for a while before introducing it at major venues. From the start the Concerto …

“A second one will sound very different,” wrote Johannes Brahms to violinist Joseph Joachim, about the disastrous reception in Leipzig of his First Piano Concerto. More than twenty years would pass before there was a …

The critics in Vienna were quick to comment that Johannes Brahms did not include the word “Jesus” in his Requiem. Brahms simply responded that as the composer of this music he decided what words and …