Johannes Brahms

A lullaby is gentle music, sometimes with lyrics, to help a baby – or anyone – fall asleep.

In an encore broadcast of the closing concert of the 2021 Boston Symphony Orchestra season at Tanglewood, it’s an all-Brahms concert with Leonidas Kavakos as the soloist in the Violin Concerto and Herbert Blomstedt conducting the Symphony No. 4.

On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, pianist Jeremy Denk explores the musical and romantic bonds between Brahms and the Schumanns. Then soprano Ying Fang sings light-hearted chansons by Bizet and achingly beautiful songs by Rachmaninoff, plus Schubert's tempestuous "Night and Dreams."

Musings on the link between creativity and walking.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “Thank You,” it will be enough. ~Meister Eckhart

In a 2018 concert at Symphony Hall, Vadim Gluzman is the soloist in the Violin Concerto by Brahms, and Tugan Sokhiev conducts Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

The Russian pianist takes center stage for Brahms’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Andris Nelsons conducts Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony.

On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, pianist Jeremy Denk performs music by Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Missy Mazzoli.

In an encore broadcast from 2017, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Brahms's boldly dramatic Symphony No. 1 and ruminative Symphony No. 3.

To celebrate Mother’s Day, these are some of the most powerful musical expressions of the bonds between mother and child. A while back my sister gave me a…