Everything I listened to appeals directly to my taste in classical music. Bruch was a straightforward German Romantic composer and, apparently, I like that. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say ...

Why would ultra-serious Johannes Brahms write not one, but two serenades—pieces usually meant for light entertainment? He was working his way up to writing symphonies. Brahms dedicated his second ...

On the other hand I immediately felt how hard it would be to come close to this “truth”. In all of Brahms’s music there is this element of something elusive and unreachable. Deeply inspired by this ...

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 ...

At just 19 years old, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was told: don’t imitate Brahms. So he didn’t—he answered him. His Clarinet Quintet uses the same instruments and structure as Brahms’s, but speaks in a ...

An hour’s worth of Brahms’s chamber music for horn? Almost; we get the familiar Opus 40 Trio here, plus arrangements of the Op 38 Cello Sonata and the Scherzo in C minor. Horn player Alec ...

The 75th season of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra (FSO) is going strong in 2024 with several upcoming concerts scheduled throughout the year. This month FSO is returning to tradition with its ...

If you're an iPhone owner who subscribes to a local symphony orchestra or has a favorite Brahms concerto, you'll fall in love with Apple Music Classical instantly. If you’re an iPhone owner smitten ...

Look, it’s not that us classical music fans are snooty. But ask any aficionado and we’ll roundly agree: Music streaming platforms get the genre so, so wrong. Searching for classical recordings on ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Recordings of Brahms, Haydn, Grieg, Nikolai Kapustin and George Walker are among recent highlights. Frank Dupree, piano; Jakob Krupp, bass; Obi Jenne, ...