John Eliot Gardiner and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra deliver fresh, beautifully detailed Brahms symphonies on CD.

The movie opens up with a woman coming home (from work, presumably?) and calling out for her son. The woman, Liza, is played by Katie Holmes, and she's calling out for her son, Jude. Jude ends up ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The ageing process was not kind to Brahms. As a young adult he still looked juvenile but, by the time he ...

The English composer pays reverent and inventive homage to music by the German grandee with the help of the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann Throughout his 60-year career as a composer, ...

Brahms often sought the advice of experts when writing for instruments other than the piano. He was particularly lucky when it came to the violin. From the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi, with ...