Darkness hangs over a fluid and distinctively emotional take on a dozen introspective works ...
They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...
NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...
Johannes Brahms was and remains one of the most important and towering figures of the Romantic period of music. He rose from squalor as the son of a bassist and a seamstress. Brahms got his start ...
Voices of Ascension will present rarely-heard works from three master composers of the 19th and 20th centuries at Church of ...
Pianist Helene Grimaud will perform several, Brahms concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Boston's Symphony Hall through Nov. 17. (Photo by Mat Hennek, courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon, Boston ...
In an effort to demystify classical music, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra hosted an “Inside the Music” session. The gathering explored Johannes Brahms’ “Symphony No. 4,” which was one of the works to be ...
Leaving aside prodigies like Mendelssohn or Erich Wolfgang Korngold, there aren't many composers who got off to as muscular and assured a start as the young Brahms. By the time he was out of his teens ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For the fifth week in a row, Gustavo Dudamel was to have begun, anew, ...
WHEN musical criticism tries to explain or interpret the inner meaning, what may be called the emotional gist of music, it exposes itself to grave dangers. In the first place, it easily degenerates ...
NEW YORK — On a drizzly afternoon last month, the pianist Emanuel Ax crossed 57th Street and repeated a short journey he has made many times, walking between Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall, two ...