Johannes Brahms thought he was embellishing music by Haydn when he devised his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" for two pianos. History has proved that the theme is by someone else, but that hasn't ...

Accordo, the crème de la crème of two venerable music organizations (SPCO and Minnesota Orchestra), team with guest artists for this intimate performance of Brahms’ gorgeously dramatic Clarinet ...

Johannes Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn are a brilliant example of how to write a set of variations. The Avanti Orchestra plays them in concert at the Porvoo Art Factory in Helsinki, Finland, ...

(Toscanini, NBC Symphony; RCA Victrola VIC-6400). If anything, Brahms benefits even more than Beethoven from a Toscanini tightening-up. This is a four-record album.