Johannes Brahms’s father was an impecunious double-bass ... Eventually, in 1872, he decided to make the Austrian capital his base. His German Requiem and Alto Rhapsody from the late 1860s made him ...

Andrea Atzeni is excited to reunite with Johannes Brahms in next week’s BMW Hong Kong Derby (2,000m) as he bids to land his biggest victory in Hong Kong. The Sardinian jockey booted home Pierre ...

With an even batch of four-year-olds progressing through this year’s Classic Series, the BMW Hong Kong Derby (2,000m) promises to be one of the most open editions in recent years. Rubylot ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Think of what we lost as a result of Brahms’s self-critical demand for perfection. We have a better idea ...

Johannes von Baumbach, along with three of his older siblings who are aged 23, 25, and 27 are now worth an estimated $5.4 billion each. The world’s youngest billionaire is Johannes von Baumbach ...

If you were to stitch all of the greatest hits of the gangster genre into a single movie, you could do a whole lot worse than Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights. Written by Nicholas Pileggi (who ...

It’s always a pleasure to see De Niro toast his rivals’ downfall. The Alto Knights seems to be aiming for an elegiac tone similar to that of The Irishman, nostalgically mourning both a lost ...

Entertainment Inc. The promise of Robert De Niro playing not one but two infamous gangsters might enough to tempt fans of Goodfellas or the Godfather trilogy into seeing The Alto Knights.

Robert De Niro plays the crime lords Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in this film about midcentury Mafia moves. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

The Oscar-winning actor plays gangsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in a real-life crime film written by Nicholas Pileggi and co-starring Debra Messing. By Frank Scheck There are some good ...

Robert De Niro may be 81 years old, but he’s still the mafia movie king, and his latest crime thriller, The Alto Knights, opens in theaters this weekend. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker ...