Symphony

Symphony No. 4

1 upcoming performance in New York

Johannes Brahms’s *Symphony No. 4* is his final symphony, begun in 1884 and first heard in 1885 under the composer’s baton. In New York, it has long served as a repertoire touchstone, performed repeatedly by the New York Philharmonic at what is now David Geffen Hall, where late‑Romantic symphonic craft is part of the institution’s history. The score is built with classical discipline but speaks in darker, compressed paragraphs. Its closing passacaglia is a clear-eyed act of structural resolve rather than display.