| 单词 | Brahms |
| 例句 | Strains of Vivaldi and Brahms floated out over the water. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was a genius other composers slavishly followed for well over half a century, yet to most modern listeners he is just a name, alongside his colleague Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “He’s not bombastic like Brahms, or romantic like Chopin.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Listening to Faure after Brahms, Liszt, Wagner or Tchaikovsky is comparable to someone spring-cleaning and redecorating a teenage boy’s bedroom. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Sometimes the music would be classical: Brahms, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, or Bach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even relatively nearby, in Vienna, Brahms ploughed his symphonic furrow, stylistically unaffected by the Bayreuth hurricanes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In a sixty-year career on the concert stage she tirelessly championed the music of her husband, of Brahms and of Chopin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And everywhere, it seemed, was the sound of cellphones, one ringing out with a salsa tune, another with bars from Brahms. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A Bach invention, a Brahms symphony, and a Beatles song are different forms in different genres, and at first they may sound as if they have nothing in common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then some Brahms, who is as bad as you might think. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On the third day, he trotted out some Brahms lullabies. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Brahms has this obvious counterpoint and resistance in the music, we always feel that every voice is so rich. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The pianist ended with a revelatory account of Brahms’s feisty, craggy Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, one of the works the 19-year-old Brahms showed the Schumanns when he first met them. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Berg, after all, was Schoenberg’s disciple, and his concerto combines Schoenberg’s 12-tone method with a current of Romanticism that ties it to the Brahms. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z In an earlier installment of this series I tried to weasel out of picking Romantic composers other than Brahms by arguing that the era fostered originality and personal expression above all. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z A little corner of a cabinet devoted to Brahms, a darling of the Gesellschaft, holds special fascination. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Vienna’s Musical Giants’ Brings Artifacts to Carnegie Hall 2014-03-11T21:56:53Z That left Andsnes' athletic, mettlesome and exciting performance of the Brahms to lift the concert out of the ordinary. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z On Sunday, there’s music by the same composers, with Brahms’s Serenade No. 1, Schumann’s “Konzertstück” for four horns and orchestra and Schumann’s Cello Concerto. 4 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s good, too, that the program concludes with Mr. Alston’s “Brahms Hungarian.” Review: Richard Alston Dance Says Adieu in (Quiet) Character 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The symphonies are substantial pieces – the First from 1861, lasts almost 70 minutes – in a style that seems closest to Mendelssohn and Schumann with just hints of Brahms and Wagner in the later works. Raff: Symphonies Nos 1 ? 11; Suites 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z His audiences heard plenty of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven and Stravinsky. Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z So I mentioned having studied with Leonard Shure, with whom Bernstein had given a colossal performance of Brahms’s First Concerto on a Philharmonic program in 1960. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Last season, the pianist Paul Lewis played Brahms with these younger players, with Andris Nelsons at the helm; this year, it’s Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 from the same forces. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z And like Mozart, Brahms' quartet is ever changeable, the composer constantly interrupting himself with a new idea that might not seem to fit. Hagen Quartet shows exquisite unity in rare SoCal concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z “I mean, we saw it in school. We saw it in church choirs. We saw women conducting all the time, every day. But we didn’t see them conducting Brahms or Beethoven.” Perspective | If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z As the work builds towards a climax, the chorus — the same one that performed the Brahms Requiem with Masur in 2001, the New York Choral Artists — almost shouts "Prepare yourself to live!" Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z The orchestral heft of the added strings — nine violins, three violas, two cellos, and a double bass — further burnished the dusky glow of many sections in the Brahms. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z Somewhere in the afterlife, I am going to accompany his violin in the Brahms G major sonata. Paul Klee by Philip Hensher 2011-08-05T21:55:08Z The evening was bookended by two piano trios: Debussy's in G Major and Brahms' in B Major. Review: Skies clear, chamber players shine at Seattle Chamber Music Society's festival opener 2010-07-06T23:45:00Z Joachim deemed it not up to the composer’s standards, and never performed it; Schumann’s wife, Clara, and friend and sometime protégé Johannes Brahms agreed, and it was not included in Schumann’s complete works. Midori fails to sell little-known Schumann to NSO audience Between Mr. Fleisher’s wrong notes and the intonation problems of his colleagues, Brahms occasionally took on an unexpectedly modernist tinge. Music Review | Leon Fleisher and Friends: An Evening of Brahms Becomes a Memorial 2010-03-04T22:42:00Z Wednesday’s lineup includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 and the violinist Pinchas Zukerman as the soloist in Mozart’s “Turkish” Concerto. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The last orchestra concert I took in, on Wednesday, might not look so bold on paper: The formidable pianist Kirill Gerstein was the soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Mr. Langrée conducted Brahms’s First Symphony. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The University of Washington's director of orchestral activities brings Bartók's "Miraculous Mandarin Suite" and Brahms' Symphony No. 1 to plush, sumptuous life in his debut CD on the Naxos label with the London Symphony Orchestra. What our writers love this week 2011-02-16T22:50:12Z He played trumpet throughout his adolescence, but switched to the French horn to gain entry to the Manhattan School of Music, where he learned the music of Brahms and Schubert. Perspective | Brother Ah heard the music in everything 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Compositionally, Brahms looks to the past and integrates it into his writing. Violinist Jennifer Koh bridges past and present 2012-03-15T20:58:04Z He has been surveying requiems with the Philadelphia Orchestra, including those of Mozart and Brahms, and he and the orchestra are to bring Verdi’s Requiem to Carnegie Hall in October. Music Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-05T21:43:45Z Ian Bostridge’s reflective, often pained way with words would not suit all of Brahms’s songs, but, despite occasional strain, this is one of the tenor’s finest releases. Classical Playlist: Brahms, Vivaldi and Tallis 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Denk joined the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and Mr. Langrée for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, a work Brahms admired, and for which he produced a cadenza, performed here. Review: Jeremy Denk in a Full-Blooded Performance at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The program began with a dark, majestic account of Brahms’s “Tragic” Overture. Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Brahms didn’t invent the practice of superimposing duplets and triplets in music: Beethoven explored it, especially in his late works. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Brahms, like Beethoven before him, was brilliant at creating lighter center movements, to contrast all the heaviness in the bookends. The Romantic, the modern at Seattle chamber-music fest 2012-07-24T21:01:07Z Namely, music of Brahms: It performed his First and Third Symphonies at Carnegie on Friday evening, the Second and Fourth on Saturday evening and the “German Requiem” on Sunday afternoon, all conducted by Daniele Gatti. Review: Vienna Philharmonic’s Familiar and Fierce Show of Brahms 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z There was no particular reason to follow the Finnish works after intermission with Brahms’s Second Symphony. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z A celebrity duo in celebrity repertoire, as this violinist and pianist join forces for Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Based on this initial encounter, a program featuring standard works by Brahms and Dvorak, the prognosis is decidedly positive. Music Review: A Jacques Lacombe Preview With , New Jersey Symphony 2010-04-23T22:38:00Z Endless debate about dueling Brahms interpretations takes the place of discourse about new work. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z James Newton Howard’s “They have just arrived at this new level” receives its world premiere, alongside works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms, as part of the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2018 Summer Festival. Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Here, they will portray Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, as little listeners learn about these composers. Spare Times for Children for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:35:14Z The Philharmonic, for example, has already this season presented a Haydn symphony and a Brahms serenade — neither a rarity, but both rarely played by that orchestra. Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The first encore continued in this unexpected vein, with the Albumblatt in A Minor, a piece written by Brahms in a friend’s music notebook and rediscovered only in the past decade. Review | Korean pianist shows there is musical life beyond winning competitions 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z I had listened to recordings of Holly Hunter, who played Ada, performing Bach and Brahms and thought she'd be best suited to reflective, lyrical music – and useless at the usual Michael Nyman-type stuff. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z We now find inherent in Brahms and Bach other roots that led to some of the greatest musical innovations. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Pacific Crossing: Brahms by Way of Seoul Western classical music has long flourished in Korea: where Western missionaries go, music tends to follow. Music Review: Korean Symphony at Carnegie, Brahms via Seoul 2010-06-02T21:50:00Z When I was studying with Shure, a student colleague found a scratchy reel-to-reel tape recording of this Brahms performance that we all passed around and copied. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The known entities on the program were Brahms and Schumann. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Performs ‘Tales From the Nine Bells’ 2014-05-07T20:58:48Z Nicholas Angelich is the soloist for Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, which will be paired with Tchaikovsky’s evergreen Symphony No. 5. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The composer and devout Wagnerite Hugo Wolf described Brahms at the time as “only a leftover of old remains, not a living creature in the mainstream of time.” With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Curiously, though, it's the most strait-laced work here, Brahms E minor Sonata Op 38, that benefits most; textures are transparent, climaxes never become overpowering, giving the music a buoyancy that seems very fresh. Brahms; Debussy; Shostakovich: Cello Sonatas, etc – review 2012-11-29T22:40:01Z In the Brahms, Mr. Nelsons’ deliberate tempo paid off as the first movement progressed and heat built. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z What did Brahms see in Beethoven, whose marble bust stared down at him while he composed? Music Review: Piano Trios From a Pair of Kindred Masters 2011-02-08T22:23:04Z Diangienda is now on his way to London to become an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, an accolade previously granted to the likes of Mendelssohn, Rossini, Wagner, Brahms and Stravinsky. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z The brilliant violinist Gil Shaham stepped in to play the Brahms Violin Concerto, and the performance, put together with scant rehearsal time, was rhapsodic and compelling. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z A number of the album’s nine Iverson originals have the same droll, diatonic structuring that defined his writing for the old band: It’s Bacharach meets Brahms meets John Lewis. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Up the Ante, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Chamber favorites by Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart are on the bill, too. 18 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-01-25T23:30:05Z She was a student of Clara Schumann’s, and when she was a young girl, she met Brahms. A Lullaby, a Caress: Yo-Yo Ma, Ax and Kavakos on Brahms 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z A decade later, Brahms chose her as the soloist for the premiere of his Alto Rhapsody. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z In the meantime, there was something of a preview in the three recent livestreams — contemporary-minded programs for the Musica Viva series, and a deceptively traditional one of works by Brahms, Stravinsky and Haydn. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z In introductory comments from the stage, Ms. Wu called attention to other season highlights: notably, a monthlong winter festival, Manifest Legacy: Beethoven/Brahms. | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Beginning the Season With a Show of Restraint 2010-09-22T22:08:00Z The concerto seems an attempt to balance the advanced chromatic language of Wagner with Brahms’s feeling for classical structure. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Other programs in this enticing festival juxtapose Babbitt with his fellow modernists, like Charles Wuorinen; various students, including Stephen Sondheim; and composers he revered, from Brahms to Irving Berlin. Review: Milton Babbitt Inspires a Focus! Festival Tribute 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z At any rate, Brahms wrote in a letter to Clara Schumann that he would have preferred using the title “human requiem,” and Clara agreed in her diary that this was “a truly human requiem.” Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z That, on the evidence of four concerts heard here during a Brahms minifestival with the Boston Symphony over the past two weeks. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z There are some interesting differences between American tastes and the rest of the world, with Brahms and Richard Strauss represented across the pond, but neither composer making the global hit parade. The diva of all data: why we should take note of these musical numbers 2011-01-24T16:07:14Z The orchestra sounded magnificent in the supple, texturally transparent, contrast-rich reading of Brahms’s Third Symphony with which Mr. Gilbert closed the program. Music Review: Alan Glibert and Frank Peter Zimmermann on Violin - Review 2011-10-06T19:56:57Z Perhaps Mr. Mehta was striving to draw dark, weighty Brahms playing from the orchestra. Music Review: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Visits Carnegie Hall 2014-03-21T21:42:06Z Whole sumptuous realms of melody will be on offer next week when the Seattle Symphony performs Brahms’ Symphony No. 4, Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z According to the changing tempo of the Brahms piece, he acts like a forlorn lover, prancing ballerina, an angry boyfriend, and an elegant ballroom dancer. LA takes baton as flagship for youth orchestras 2011-11-13T16:03:17Z But if this Brahms is rightly unsettling, it’s unsettled, too; so much is going on that it can be hard to hear the tragic, destructive force that marks this symphony coming through. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In isolation they might remind you of Brahms, but piled together the association blurs and deliberate haziness sets in. BBCSSO/Donald Runnicles ? review 2011-04-10T21:31:01Z It takes the whole body to play the Brahms concerto. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Dance phrasing joined musical phrasing in many ways, showing both micro and macro aspects of Gluck, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky. Review: Sara Mearns Joins Isadora Duncan’s Maenads and Nymphs 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Hungarian Dance No. 5, Johannes Brahms Thanks to his famous lullaby, Brahms was probably already your child’s favorite classical composer as an infant. 10 Pieces of Classical Music Your Toddler will Love 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Pedals were just beginning with Haydn, but very much present by Brahms’ time. Yefim Bronfman: Flying fingers and heartfelt Prokofiev | Classical review 2012-12-11T19:02:01Z Lim painted these differences vividly finding a tough abruptness for Grieg’s mostly vertical lines, and a generous warmth for the horizontal, almost wistful flow of the Brahms. Violinist Ji Young Lim struts in a Phillips Collection recital 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z On Saturday, the brilliant clarinetist Martin Frost, joined by the pianist Roland Pontinen, offers an adventurous program including Brahms, Bartok and more. Emanuel Ax, the Emerson Quartet and Other Recitals With a View 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z In Brahms’s day these pieces would have been heard in rooms the size of the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-23T22:29:50Z Plus he’s just fun to watch, seemingly swimming through the music, ducking so low in the mists of Brahms’s Third that at one point I scratched out what appears to read “he stoops to conquer!” With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z There, the Hagen never let the afflatus of passion overrule the printed markings in the music; if Brahms wrote “piano,” the playing stayed soft, no matter how amorous the feeling. Hagen Quartet’s precision, flexible style create fresh interpretation of classics 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The Second, which Hindemith wrote while serving in the German army, follows on from where Brahms, and occasionally Reger, left off. Hindemith: String Quartets Nos 2 and 3 – review 2012-07-26T20:47:01Z Garrick Ohlsson plays Brahms’s complete works for solo piano over four programs; Paul Lewis joins the orchestra for all five Beethoven piano concertos. Singing Will Return to Tanglewood This Summer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The Schumann lacked an element of poetry, usually a Perahia forte; the Brahms lacked an ounce or two of excitement. Music Review: Boston Symphony’s Two Nights at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-13T21:25:01Z “Usually Brahms in our orchestra is played with this weightiness, and we do the same thing every time, no matter who is on the podium. She came in with this completely fresh approach.” Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z He pointed to the Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor: “You think of Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets, but this is up there. It holds its own.” 3 New Albums Retell the History of Black Composers 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z He returns with Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, which he pairs on Wednesday at Carnegie Hall with Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish.” The Week Ahead: Dec. 4 ? Dec. 10 2011-12-02T19:02:33Z Wednesday’s concert, at 7:30 p.m., pairs Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring the pianist Emanuel Ax as soloist, with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Classical & Opera Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Schoenberg expressed his admiration in a famous essay, Brahms the Progressive, and Michael Tilson Thomas and the Vienna Philharmonic's contribution to The Rest is Noise explored the relationship between the two composers. VPO/Tilson Thomas – review 2013-04-10T17:15:01Z The Olympic Music Festival program in which Canellakis will participate includes Brahms' String Sextet No. 2 in G major, which he calls "a pastoral piece with unusual textures; gorgeous." At Olympic Music Festival, a cellist with a 'thirst' for comedy 2012-08-09T20:27:03Z Ms. Yip pushed for better hours and started building up their repertoire with basics like Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and, she said, “lots of Stravinsky, because I’m a big fan.” A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z At first glance, the program that the Philadelphia Orchestra presented at Carnegie Hall on Friday appeared perfectly conservative: a Brahms symphony, a Haydn concerto, the suite from “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The second half of the program featured a surging, glowing account of Brahms’s Third Symphony. Guests Artists Enliven the Mostly Mozart Festival 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The New York Philharmonic retreats this weekend into a program out of the 1950s: the overture to “Die Fledermaus,” Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching ‘Salome’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z He embodies Brahms the man and the musician every time he walks on the platform. Lucerne festival goes Lupu for Brahms 2011-08-15T16:19:09Z Weingartner, whose career was based mostly in Vienna, was among the first conductors to record plentifully, and collectors still prize his recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies. Music Review: Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players - Review 2011-09-27T21:00:17Z A Symphony from the beyond: Henryk Górecki died before he could finish his Fourth Symphony, which the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned as a companion to Brahms for a festival four years ago. Classical music 2015 highlights: Female conductors, 'Hopscotch,' Dudamel — but about those parking fees 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Both Schumann and Schoenberg looked to Brahms, from the dramatically distinct vantages of the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Just as with the Brahms, I listened in vain for a distinctive vision from the podium. Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Our recent CD, 'Brahms On Brass,' is music arranged by myself and Chris. Canadian Brass show features new members, familiar humor 2011-12-08T21:42:06Z For those in the audience on Sunday, who gave the artists warm ovations, hearing these beautiful Brahms performances was reward enough. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-23T22:29:50Z Velinzon’s Brahms was expansive and unhurried, his tone moderately sized and flexible, and his technique well able to handle the concerto’s demands. Solos step up in Symphony’s take on two masterpieces 2014-04-26T00:46:53Z Perhaps it's going a bit far to suggest that Thomas Zehetmair is a better judge of Schumann than Brahms. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2013-06-12T16:57:53Z The concert began with the music of a Hamburg native: Johannes Brahms. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The film includes a companion CD of unreleased live recordings, including Brahms lieder. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z Brahms often wrote for the piano as if it were an orchestra. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z The 2012 “Solo Echo,” set to Brahms and inspired by a Mark Strand poem, “Lines for Winter,” offers seven dancers a melancholy journey through a frosty world. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z To my ear, he quotes Brahms more or less directly only in a phrase or two midway through the piece, and in another one at the end. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z During his life, Bruckner was overshadowed by Brahms, who hewed closely to accepted forms in his four symphonies. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z In a well-chosen program of early Schubert, late Shostakovich and middle Brahms, the Hagen sounded like three groups. Hagen Quartet’s precision, flexible style create fresh interpretation of classics 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Seattle Pacific University music professor Eric Hanson will speak on "Brahms' Third Symphony and the Unrequited Theme" an hour before each concert. Renowned pianist to play once-again-popular Prokofiev concerto with Seattle Symphony 2010-09-16T22:21:00Z Only in the final piece, Brahms’s burly Piano Quintet, with Jon Kimura Parker as pianist, did the Danish players show their age, or rather their youth. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Current members and alumni team up to celebrate the award-winning group's 40th year in a concert including works by Hogan, Brahms, Monteverdi and music director/conductor Karen P. Thomas. The week ahead: Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Oct. 21 2012-10-17T20:53:04Z Then she plays Brahms’s overlooked Sonata No. 2, followed by a Clara Schumann Romance dedicated to Brahms, ending with Brahms’s formidable Sonata No. 3. Classical Music & Opera Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z At the National Cathedral in Washington, a Friday night performance of the Brahms Requiem will benefit the families of those who died in the attack on the Pentagon. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z What's stellar is the chamber music: many of the sonatas, including those by Debussy and Franck, as well as the Brahms Horn Trio and Ravel's piano trio. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The Brahms variations followed, played with an unusually light and athletic touch which was not wholly persuasive but nevertheless gathered momentum for the towering fugal conclusion. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z And so Ross frees Brahms from a remote classicism to which he's been unfairly bound. 'Listen to This': Alex Ross ponders 21st-century music 2010-10-06T23:07:00Z Whereas with Brahms, with his late music, it’s more a feeling of resignation. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z More typical Bargemusic fare is planned for Saturday and Sunday: piano trios by Haydn and Mendelssohn, and a Brahms Violin Sonata. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Coincidentally, the Philadelphia Orchestra is also playing the Fourth, along with Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 this weekend. ArtsBeat: Philadelphia Orchestra's Principal Clarinetist to Perform With the Philharmonic 2010-10-14T21:29:00Z My $5.50 latte packed all the punch of a Brahms lullaby. How to find a great cup of coffee in Charleston, S.C. — or wherever you go 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The Philharmonic has high hopes for Dudamel, 42, but it probably has not hired him first and foremost to commit agenda-setting Beethoven and Brahms to disc, though he will make records anyway. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The director also makes distinctive use of music, filling the soundtrack with classical pieces—orchestrations of compositions by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The famous “Chaconne” from the D Minor Solo Violin Partita, played in a transcription by Brahms, emerged with a spontaneous urgency as though improvised on the spot. Young harpsichordist continues to amaze 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's full, dark sound is admirably suited to Brahms, and there was singing of great splendour, precision and commitment from the Chester Festival Chorus. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko – review 2012-07-08T14:46:27Z When I ask if this is how he relaxes in his downtime, kicking back with some Brahms and Hemingway, Murray chuckles. 'I’m nothing but compost’: Bill Murray on good friends, bad bosses and Harvey Weinstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The homes of Schubert, Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart all host museums — but they are small and rather forgettable. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In his important essay Schoenberg claimed Brahms as a model for his own blend of tradition and radicalism. Finding Brahms in Schoenberg 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z Tuesday night the orchestra began a short West Coast tour at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa with its music director, Alan Gilbert, and a program that included Brahms Second. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Roman himself performs Sept. 23 with two fellow string players and a pianist in an evening of piano quartets by Brahms, Sharlat and Andres. Town Music season ready at Town Hall 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The program ended with Brahms’s Trio in E flat for horn, violin and piano, an innovative combination of instruments for the time. Music Review: Hearing ?Spring? as Summer Fades 2010-09-05T22:32:00Z But she has always competed with the best fiddlers of her time in her recordings of mainstream repertoire; her Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok concertos are fully competitive with anyone else’s. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In previous Brahms cycles with the Philharmonic, Mr. Masur suggested that each symphony represented a stage in the composer’s life, which was riddled with insecurities and self-criticism. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z I think Brahms puts that argument to bed. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Making her recital debut at Town Hall in January 1944, she sang a program of Massenet, Handel, Mussorgsky and Brahms. Blanche Thebom, Mezzo-Soprano, Dies at 94 2010-03-28T02:25:00Z In addition, as Mr. Beller-McKenna notes, the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 may have complicated matters for Brahms, a German living in Vienna who was not yet won over to the victorious Prussian cause. Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z "I'll do a lot of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms with the orchestra, so that we start really working on the sound as well." Seattle Symphony unveils 2012-13 season 2012-01-25T21:49:03Z When we hear a Brahms symphony or a Beethoven piano sonata, we carry around with us our previous hearings. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z And on Sunday, Mr. Pollini returned to a packed Carnegie Hall for a splendid recital of works by Brahms, Schumann and Chopin. Review: A Pianistic Master and an Upstart, 15 Years Later 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Also on the bill: Another Brahms piece plus works by Grieg, Dvorák and Schumann. Chamber-music fest opens Eastside concerts 2011-08-04T20:01:09Z In live recordings of works by Ravel, Mendelssohn, Brahms and especially Haydn, these three musicians dance on a fizzy alchemy of melody and rhythmic verve. Trio con Brio Copenhagen: cultural connections 2012-01-13T23:07:04Z Mr. Nathan’s cinematic “the space of a door” — dedicated to his mentor, Steven Stucky, who died this year — directly borrows from Brahms, taking its opening gesture from the motif that starts the Second Symphony. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The Brahms Second Symphony, on Monday, and the Beethoven Seventh Symphony, on Sunday, demonstrated what worked and what did not. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z The final work also dispelled a sense I had that the Brahms might have been hobbled by the slightly chilly acoustic of the recently renovated Geffen Hall. Review: A Rising Star Debuts With the Philharmonic 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Besides the quintet, the bill includes a work written by his wife, Clara, and another by Johannes Brahms. 200 candles and lots of music for Robert Schumann 2010-10-14T20:50:00Z It was not a good night for Brahms. Music Review | Leon Fleisher and Friends: An Evening of Brahms Becomes a Memorial 2010-03-04T22:42:00Z These artists were then joined by the Philharmonic’s principal horn player, Philip Myers, for Brahms’s great Trio in E flat for horn, violin and piano. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-23T22:29:50Z He has conducted some vibrant, insightful accounts of Rachmaninoff and Brahms symphonies and other works. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Seattle audiences will hear the injury-free version of the Prokofiev plus Haydn’s Piano Sonata in C major and Brahms’ Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor in the pianist’s solo recital this week. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Dec. 9 2012-12-07T22:56:59Z A version of this article appears in print on May 11, 2014, on page AR4 of the with the headline: Still Elusive: Brahms, in Concert. | Classical: Still Elusive: Brahms, in Concert 2014-05-09T23:01:41Z The chosen seven began work on Friday with, yes, the Brahms. ArtsBeat: Lucerne Easter Festival: Haitink Holds Up a Mirror for Promising Maestros 2011-04-18T15:00:28Z “We just kind of liked the idea of the whole range there. And trying to make the statement that Brahms could exist in the same place as something being improvised in the moment.” Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z At Carnegie, they will be united to play Brahms’s “Tragic Overture,” the Tchaikovsky concerto with Khristenko and Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, as part of a tour led by the Ukrainian American conductor Theodore Kuchar. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z And there were too many nights when stirring Bach choral works, animated Mozart symphonies, intense Brahms concertos, diaphanous Debussy scores and more just sounded wan, and I felt restless in my seat. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z That was performed privately, but Brahms then turned it into a sonata for two pianos and then, on Clara Schumann's advice, into a piano quintet, at which point he destroyed the strings-only version. Brahms: String Quintets in F minor and B minor – review 2012-07-05T21:04:01Z On Thursday night, the National Symphony Orchestra was led by the Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena, who struck precisely the right balance of body and soul in a program bookended by Schumann and Brahms. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But the 2011 season does Brahms proud, with distinguished lineups performing all his major works. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z Much of the most beautiful music over the last two centuries has been conceived for it: imagine how impoverished western music would be without the piano writing of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy and beyond. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z The occasional awkwardness of Brahms' piano writing held no terrors for him. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z But his Brahms was, musically, quite wonderful, a true “romantic” interpretation — a surging rush of ardor, extreme plasticity of tempo and long, yearning lines. Review | Both musicians shine, but balance between piano and cello is off 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The evening began with the national anthem, sung by all in attendance, and ended with Brahms' A German Requiem. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z Dvorak always suffers a bit in comparison with Brahms, because they were contemporaries and admired each other. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z In the unforgiving company of Chopin, Brahms and Schumann, his own work didn't merely hold its own; it glowed. Stephen Hough – review 2013-01-22T12:18:59Z In subscribing to Schoenberg’s methods, Berg extended a putative lineage devoted to musical logic, from Beethoven and Brahms into Schoenberg’s work. Music Review: Tribute to Composer Alban Berg at Bard Music Festival 2010-08-16T21:54:00Z As planes flew overhead, they performed “High Hopes” by Panic! at the Disco, suggesting that a youth orchestra need not live by Brahms and Beethoven alone. From a Burger King to a Concert Hall, With Help From Frank Gehry 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Still, the birthplace of Brahms hasn’t always looked kindly upon rock ’n’ roll. T Magazine: Twist and Stout 2011-03-25T14:00:14Z Now 35, more scruffy than smooth and trading his bow tie for a casual black shirt, he joined the orchestra at Carnegie in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z And on Friday and Saturday the violin superstar Joshua Bell joins the music director Louis Langrée and the festival orchestra in Brahms’s Violin Concerto 7:30 p.m. The Week Ahead: Aug. 12 — 18 2012-08-11T03:44:19Z Here he was exceptionally fine, from the meaty downward line, amid trembling violas, in the Mendelssohn quintet’s third movement to the exuberant blossoming at the start of the Brahms. Season Finale at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Aimard was at his best, and worst, in the Brahms, which was genuinely engaging on a musical level though also slightly terrifying when the pianist suffered from strange technical lapses. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress Not quite 30, the cellist Bruno Philippe has over the past few years recorded — with elegant understatement and a serene tone — music by Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Myaskovsky, Brahms and Schumann. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Nor was it much of a novelty to place Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, with its relatively quiet endings for all four movements, first on the program. Conductor James Gaffigan saves the best for last in L.A. Phil's Brahms and Strauss concert 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Despite the brief interruption after the first movement, the Brahms Quintet, with Ida Kavafian as first violinist and Mr. Silverstein as second, fared somewhat better. Music Review: Chamber Music Society in Its Season Finale 2010-05-24T23:32:00Z They play works by Mozart, Debussy and Brahms, ending with Schubert’s great Fantasie in F minor. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s an amazing feeling getting to the end of the Brahms concerto. Joshua Bell on the death of Neville Marriner and picking up the baton from a legend 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z In his capacity as a music critic, Schumann called the young, unknown Brahms a genius. 200 candles and lots of music for Robert Schumann 2010-10-14T20:50:00Z This brief survey suggested that Brahms favored music of warmth and complexity: no surprise there. ArtsBeat: Some Misses and Hits at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-16T19:31:07Z A Brahms symphony movement can have an urgent narrative progression, but a Bruckner movement often seems a series of thoughts. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z This was the second of three Carnegie programs, which began on Tuesday with music of Sebastian Currier, Beethoven and Brahms, and ends on Thursday with works by Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. Boston Symphony Presents "Elektra" in Three-Night Carnegie Hall Stand 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z If Schumann's Mass was a rarity, then the first half of the programme stuck to more familiar territory, with two works by Brahms. SCO/John Storg?rds 2010-05-07T20:50:00Z These works of desperate sadness distill Brahms’s typical ambiguity into the most concentrated of forms. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Coming up next year are Wagner, Mozart, Brahms, Strauss and Verdi: more standards. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z And for good or ill, the balance tilts hardest in what is still thought of as classical music’s core repertoire: Mahler, nowadays; Brahms, naturally; Beethoven, forever. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Neither, actually, just a stupendous performance of Brahms’s First Symphony. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z “Do you want to do mathematics in the desert or in the city where Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven overlapped, and Brahms used to come to our house? We’re Austrians. Viennese.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Folk dance settings by Bartok and Brahms sit alongside works tailored specially to Mr. Frost’s ability to sing and play simultaneously, through a technique of his own devising. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It allowed the Chamber Orchestra of Europe to blossom in Brahms as deftly as it contained the magnificent sonority of the Bavarian forces in Tchaikovsky. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z A U.S. flag hung motionless on stage right as Levit sat at the gleaming Steinway, raised one arm, and began a chaconne by Bach, in an arrangement by Brahms for left hand only. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But listening to snippets of Brahms and Schubert waft through sun-dappled trees one afternoon, a critic had the sense that at Marlboro such utopian fantasies remain a vibrant reality. Critic?s Notebook: Where Musicians Bask in the Luxury of Time 2011-08-08T22:15:13Z At Christmastime in 1943, according to Mr. Campbell’s book, Ginsberg heard Brahms wafting from Carr’s room and knocked to find out who was listening to the music he loved. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z Perhaps the most ingenious aspect of Brahms’s rhythmic puzzles is that it they are so well hidden. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Some biographers have seen this as a regressive streak or a sign of Brahms’s military bent. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Brahms also wrote epic concertos, sonatas and chamber works that at once honored and utterly transformed the Classical forms. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z When Jessye Norman was ten years old, she heard a recording of the great African-American contralto Marian Anderson singing Brahms’s “Alto Rhapsody.” The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Rabinovich performed it with uncommon sensitivity and feeling for the elements of Baroque style and dance forms that inspired Brahms. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Recalled for an encore, Mr. Isserlis said that one of the few things Brahms and Liszt had in common was their love of Schubert. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z These works, like much of late Brahms, can come across as weighty and thick-textured, but this duo brings wonderful transparency to the scores. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The Brahms symphony proved a good showcase for Ms. Phelps and the rest of the orchestra’s superb low strings, and for Mr. Wang and his fine fellow woodwind principals. Review: A Stirring Premiere at the Philharmonic, With Perfect Timing 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z But immediately in the first variation, she latched on to the investigative way Brahms explores this theme. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Brahms wrote these works as he was still experimenting with composing for orchestra; revised in the mid-1870s, the score of the 30-minute Serenade No. 2 lacks violins, for a melancholy tinge to the general geniality. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The Brahms quintet took time to cohere, and it was not until the andante and the spiky scherzo that Kovacevich's playing settled into its familiar balanced directness. Stephen Kovacevich 70th birthday ? review 2010-10-18T21:30:00Z From the evidence of the Brahms performances Tuesday, the New York Philharmonic remains a top-flight ensemble, strong in every section. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z This time it was David Requiro; and much as I enjoyed his playing last week in Ravel and Shostakovich, it was his response to Brahms that bowled me over on Saturday. Superb Brahms at Olympic Music Festival's Saturday concert 2011-08-28T16:07:04Z A century later, Brahms looked back to Bach as a model and in opposition to his nemesis Wagner, who signified music of the future. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The Brahms is I think almost skeleton-like; I wanted it to be that way. To Cope With Loss, a Pianist Mined the Music of Life Itself 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z While the list of most-performed works of the Rattle era is still heavy with Brahms and Beethoven, 20th-century pieces by Stravinsky, Berg and Webern have also been among the most frequently heard works. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z What Brahms sets up in the first section is so hugely despairing. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Their Brahms is characterised by technical exactitude and a quiet intensity that avoids histrionics. Tetzlaff/Vogt – review 2013-01-22T13:31:59Z Brahms wrote two piano concertos, which offer riches enough for most pianists. Prom 37: BBCPhil/Lazic/Sinaisky - review 2011-08-12T10:37:25Z The program includes works by Verdi, Brahms, Beethoven and others. The Week Ahead: Folklife and Sasquatch festivals are arts highlights 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z Brahms’ “Love Song Waltzes,” he notes, is “less stormy music” than “New Love Song Waltzes” is and the dance derived from it is “a calmer piece.” Mark Morris to bring ‘Socrates,’ love songs to Seattle Feb. 14-16 2014-02-10T01:50:45Z Mr. Tetzlaff, though best known for his patrician interpretations of Bach and Brahms, was entirely in his element here. Music Review: Having Fun Across Generations 2010-12-20T22:45:45Z I’ve also been studying the Brahms symphonies, and the Wagner operas — the “Ring,” “Tristan” — partly through the Met broadcasts. ‘Joy in the Grief’: Musicians Are Making Art in a Pandemic 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Though Schumann dedicated it to Brahms, the score was a birthday gift for Clara in 1853; she loved the music and performed it throughout Europe. A Ballerina Steps Out — as a Choreographer 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z In March 2013, before a players’ strike forced a cancellation, the orchestra envisioned playing Mahler’s Ninth Symphony and an evening of Brahms, Beethoven and Samuel Carl Adams’s “Drift and Providence.” Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z His style in this repertory is jocular to the point of insouciance — unsurprising, considering his past works include easy-listening interpretations of Beethoven and Brahms, and a string quartet called “Mister Softee Variations.” For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z He also directed a three-day master class for young conductors — conductor days, as he modestly renamed it — with an emphasis, again, on Brahms. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z Although the volatility of the First and Third suit Mr. Nelsons, his Brahms as a whole resists classification. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z This African American group, the Ensemble in Residence at Texas A&M University, steps down from art's high stage and takes Mozart, Brahms, and other classical composers to arts-neglected small towns and urban neighborhoods. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z Brahms is also represented on opening night with the Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major. Seattle Chamber Music Society winter festival starts with a big Lizst 2011-01-19T22:48:05Z “When you play Brahms or Beethoven, technically you really need to focus on pieces that are incredibly and exhaustively demanding,” Mr. Siem said. The Violinist Charlie Siem Strikes a High Note in Fashion 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Brahms seems to inspire more admiration than passion. In praise of ? Brahms 2011-08-18T22:21:21Z It’s like a mantelpiece glittering with snapshots from the ages with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and others that showcase Ms. Mutter’s honeyed tone. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Richard Reed Parry, Brahms and More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The Chiara’s recent performance at the Greene Space in New York Public Radio’s headquarters of works by Ravel, Brahms and Bartok can be viewed at wqxr.com. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z Wagner's Ring hovers in the background, and Wagner is also part of its musical makeup, though a less important part than Dvorˇák, Brahms, Sullivan and even Rimsky-Korsakov. Thelma ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:51Z The full chamber orchestra assembled itself for Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, under Kahane’s vigorous direction. In Yo-Yo Ma concert with L.A. Chamber Orchestra, simplicity outshines the showmanship 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Yet curiously, it was the distinctly lyrical aura of German Romanticism in the horn-writing that may ensure its place in the repertoire alongside the Brahms Op. Cheltenham festival opening – review 2012-07-06T15:16:29Z The violinist Mark Peskanov, Bargemusic’s director, leads two concerts of remembrance for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, with music by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Brahms and others. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The work’s admirers included the pianist and composer Clara Schumann, who raved about it in a congratulatory letter to Brahms. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z Mr. Nakamatsu devoted his program mostly to Romantic music — works by Brahms, Liszt and — but he began with an elegant, texturally transparent account of a Rameau Gavotte with six variations, originally for harpsichord. Music Review: Muscularity and Grace in Sounds of Romance 2011-04-13T22:13:16Z His recordings with Szell remain benchmarks for their clarity, precision and sheer expressive musicality; Brahms’s first piano concerto was a touchstone. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z The program ends with Brahms’s exhilarating Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z Buchbinder raves about Brahms, Mozart, Schubert and Gershwin, but Beethoven still rules 30 years later. Austrian piano virtuoso enjoys life on-off stage 2012-07-12T12:00:16Z Phil, of Bach’s Concerto in A Minor, as well as works by Brahms and Elgar. Essential Arts & Culture: Leonard Bernstein at 100, MLK tribute, peeling back the White House facade 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z In the Brahms itself, the music’s 19th-century harmonies are tempered by Schoenberg’s overtly modernist brass and percussion touches. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z They began in 1990 with intensive rehearsals and a performance of Brahms’s “A German Requiem” that many in the field talked about for years afterward. A Powerful ‘Elektra,’ Sheep at the Armory and Other Spring Classical Highlights 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Pianists complain of the awkwardness of Brahms' craggy piano writing, but under Andsnes' coolly commanding fingers it all flowed beautifully. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z The Brahms and Grieg sonatas, however, are about partnerships of equals, and we were able to appreciate fully the sweep of Chaushian's playing and the easy beauty and warmth of his tone. Chaushian/Wass – review 2013-01-09T18:27:18Z Orchestras these days can no longer rely on the likes of Brahms and Mahler to fill seats. Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The Brahms performance had lots of expressive details and dynamic contrasts, as well as the surging romanticism that infuses this score. Review: Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s Halloween night concert with Seattle Symphony was all treats, no tricks 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Written in 1880 at the instigation of Brahms, it is a sunny and vibrant work that combines that master’s architectural skill with a natural freshness that owes much to Dvorak’s use of Czech folk material. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-04T21:59:54Z On its own, the Beethoven sounds Romantic; alongside the Brahms, its Classicism is evident. Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z Seattle author Marley returns with the story of Frederica Daniels, a brilliant musicologist who gets to time-travel back to the era of Johannes Brahms. Local books: buried secrets, Amanda Knox's travails, time-traveling and BC parks 2011-08-08T21:32:03Z She gets around the deep crevasses of music by Beethoven and Brahms without much fuss, either, leaving large areas of emotion and expression unexplored. Review | Violinist Rachel Barton Pine a deft player 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But I’m very happy to play now the late Brahms, and the last three sonatas of Beethoven. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The finale reveals the influence of Brahms in its use of variation form. Music Review: From a Chair, Not a Bench, Exploring Brahms?s Poetry 2011-01-23T22:51:13Z While orchestra seasons tend to focus on conservative repertory — Mozart and Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky — recordings have been more reflective of current tastes and trends. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The program then turned to a cappella works, starting with Brahms’s “Celebratory and Memorial Sayings,” three rich-textured and harmonically bold late scores, followed by an elaborately contrapuntal Brahms motet. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z A quarter-century ago a very young Ms. Mutter was performing and recording the Brahms and other major concertos with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. 2010-02-11T08:29:00Z His programme – Chopin, Brahms, Liszt – was terribly difficult, typically generous and dispatched with a minimum of fuss. Nikolai Lugansky ? review 2011-01-12T22:31:01Z The series concludes this weekend with, on Friday, music by Ravel, Schoenberg and Charles Wuorinen, and, on Saturday, music by Dvorak, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Enescu. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:31:11Z When the conductor unleashed the brass for the most ecstatic music Brahms ever wrote, in the symphony’s final measures, the hair-raising sense of jubilation felt justly earned. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in a deeply satisfying Brahms program 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The first of the two giant works on the program was the Brahms Symphony No. 3. Seattle Symphony opens Masterworks series with impressive program 2010-09-24T21:29:00Z Still, during the final statement of the chorale theme at the end of the Brahms, the brasses played with glorious resonance and unforced power. Music Review: Leader and Players, Deeply Bound 2010-12-16T23:06:23Z A tonal traditionalist, he steeped her in the approach of 19th-century masters like Brahms. Ursula Mamlok, Avant-Garde Composer, Dies at 93 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z As much as they love playing Brahms, they performed as if they love playing Schubert even more. Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax: Brahms all-stars at Disney Hall 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z He recorded the complete symphonies of , Brahms and Beethoven and all the operas of Janacek. Charles Mackerras, a Wide-Ranging Conductor, Dies 2010-07-15T13:33:00Z Unloading the Weightiness of Brahms With a Few Flicks Sprezzatura is not a term usually associated with Brahms. Music Review: David Afkham Leads the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2013-08-18T21:53:05Z That night, in a nationally televised memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Masur led the Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms’s “German Requiem.” Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Schiff’s latest venture in this arena is his most convincing yet: a vibrant new recording of Brahms’s two piano concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Thursday’s concert includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and Schumann’s “Manfred” Overture, to be performed with members of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Before the Schubert, Vogt and the Tetzlaffs had essayed the three Brahms trios, as well as two by Dvorak; with Christian alone, there were accounts of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z "I mean, I do play Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and other things - Britten, for example," he said, referring to the British composer's violin concerto coupled on his Challenge Classics recording with Weinberg's concerto. German violinist Roth champions 'forgotten' Weinberg 2014-03-04T08:03:44Z This was wonderfully mature Brahms, humane and intensely musical, the product of a genuine meeting of interpretative minds. Proms 47 and 49: COE/Haitink ? review 2011-08-21T12:30:58Z Among the canonical composers, he revered and and was dismissive of Brahms. Alan Rich, Los Angeles Music Critic, Dies at 85 2010-04-27T03:42:00Z Brahms was viewed as a conservative, and I think that’s nonsensical. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z But Brahms is often closer to who we really are. In praise of ? Brahms 2011-08-18T22:21:21Z Like Brahms, Shaw founded an intense spirituality on humanism rather than religiosity. Saluting Robert Shaw, a Conductor of Humanist Spirituality 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The suggestion came from Balanchine himself, who just before his death thought the pair should work together on Brahms’s “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.” 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Solo selections were a nod to Mr. Goode’s renown: two works by Schubert — one of the Klavierstücke and an impromptu — and two Brahms intermezzos, given with both practiced eloquence and unassuming freedom. Music Review: Sarah Shafer and Richard Goode at Town Hall 2012-12-10T22:40:00Z Tenor Daniel Montenegro will be a rare vocal participant on July 23 and 24, with a set of songs flanked on the program by a Mozart violin-viola duo and the Brahms Horn Trio. Chamber music and cheeseburgers at Olympic Music Festival 2011-07-01T20:23:09Z “Take this opening bar of the Brahms First Symphony,” he says, and then conducts it. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z Their rendition of Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, however, is the paramount achievement here. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It was expressed subtly in the opening of the Brahms, when Ms. Uchida reached the end of her phrase but continued to rock gently in time to the undulating arpeggiation in the strings. Finding a Musical Ideal in the Vermont Woods 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z With its bristling violins set against mellow winds and brasses, this orchestra sounds wonderful in Brahms, showing off sleek ferocity in the outer movements and an exquisite bloom to its sound in the Andante. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z But, though solid and admirable, this Brahms Fourth was nothing exceptional. Music Review: Vladimir Jurowski and London Philharmonic Orchestra - Review 2011-12-10T00:28:17Z The shadow of Brahms also loomed large in the passionate Piano Quartet in A minor that Mahler wrote at 16. Music Review: When Youthful Ambition Was Restrained by Prudence 2011-03-28T22:21:23Z So I went in the opposite direction and took this music by Brahms and did this very passionate, very sentimental, very physically expressive dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z With all the new pieces, Hahn fans also were grateful for the nobility of the Bach Violin Sonata No. 1, the exciting rush of the Beethoven Sonata No. 2, and the warmhearted Brahms "Sonatensatz." Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z This was not a problem in the Brahms. Angela Hewitt ? review 2011-03-27T21:30:02Z In its own way, the Brahms concerto folds together different eras. Violinist Jennifer Koh bridges past and present 2012-03-15T20:58:04Z Who could bring together Brahms and the Beatles on national television, and have millions watch? Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z "It is one of the greatest things Johannes Brahms ever composed," Boesch hissed. Boesch/Martineau ? review 2011-04-04T21:00:01Z To listen to the pianist Paul Lewis’s new album of late Brahms, you would think these pieces had been written just after the last sonatas of Schubert, which Lewis has recorded with wrenching restraint. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z It was a robust and deliciously old-fashioned program, but throughout Aimard dropped notes and even seemed to lose his way from time to time, including near the end of the Brahms variations. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress I think you’ll see this project continue into the future with the likes of Tchaikovsky and Brahms.” Rach Fest: two nights, four concertos, four pianists 2012-12-28T21:53:25Z I ducked into Brahms Mount, which uses antique shuttle looms to construct its blankets, throws and towels. Think Freeport is all outlets? Made in Maine shops will show you otherwise. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z True, these intimate, ruminative works, originally written for clarinet, are the last chamber pieces Brahms wrote. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor is performed. The best classical concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Brahms’s imaginativeness in rhythm, harmony and thematic development makes him a progressive force. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Why would Brahms choose to write in C flat major? ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z A duo concerto — the New York Philharmonic plays the one Brahms composed for violin and cello next week — poses a challenge: triangulating the traditional soloist-orchestra dynamic. Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Dives Into Romanticism 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z At 19, as soloist with the Hallé, he gave an astonishing concert of three concertos in one evening, by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z It is not uncommon to draw connections between Brahms and Schoenberg: Simon Rattle did exactly that during a visit with the Berlin Philharmonic last season. Music Review: The Brahms Behind the Schoenberg 2011-04-11T20:30:33Z In the glorious Andante, the artists were somewhat careless with the two-against-three rhythms in the middle episodes — always so crucial in Brahms. Violist Miles Hoffman, American Chamber Players are solid at Kreeger 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Dedicated to the 20-year-old Brahms, it was the last of Schumann's works for piano and orchestra, and remains the least known – this was its first performance at the . Prom 48: BBCSSO/Manze ? review 2011-08-21T12:11:02Z But every Wednesday something comes along to perform beneath the spire – I avoid the Scottish pipers, but the pianist who plays Brahms will light my fire. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z If Brahms and Mozart seem preoccupied with troubling thoughts in these two works, neither piece quite fit with the “Music of Conscience” theme. Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z So their return will be poignant: just two nights, and the four symphonies of Brahms, a composer Barenboim performed as a pianist in this space in 1962. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Brahms destroyed as many of his scores as he released for performance and publication. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z If anything, the Suk piece was a good stylistic match for the Brahms “Tragic Overture” that preceded it and the Symphony No. 4 that followed. Neeme Jarvi leads L.A. Phil through Brahms, Suk's rhapsodic Fantasie 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z It was the lunchtime performance of the final run of chamber-music concerts presented and, in part, performed by the violinist Jaime Laredo with a program encompassing works by Dvorak, Brahms and Franck. Music Review: Jaime Laredo Gives Violin Concert at the 92nd Street Y 2013-05-12T20:39:52Z In fact, I had a bit of a Brahms problem. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The program, which will be held at Union Theological Seminary on Broadway at 121st Street, will also include music by Palestrina, Brahms and Mr. Pärt. 150 Psalms, 150 Composers at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z But filtered through the Hungarian pianist’s poetic vision — and fleet fingers — storied works by Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann opened to reveal true greatness. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In historical accounts and program notes, you read that of the four Brahms symphonies, the second is the sunny one. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z I suppose the four singers are less poor than in June, but Brahms’s vocal lines ask for better. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 1," with a bit of unruly brass and dashing spirit, finished off the night. TilsonThomas leads London Symphony in victory lap at Disney Hall 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Of the two New York premieres, “Brahms Variations,” by the group’s under-recognized resident choreographer, Robert Garland, looked backward. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Regains Its Footing 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Now 61, Bronfman is famous not only for his spectacular technique but also for the depth of his interpretations, and both these factors were in evidence during the Brahms. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The sound tugs against the sense when Schubert and Brahms become worldly. Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin – review 2012-11-20T17:50:05Z Some musicians I respect have no trouble finding shortcomings in Brahms. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Mr. Gilbert was more leisurely in the introduction to the Brahms Violin Concerto, in which Pinchas Zukerman was the soloist. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z Mr. Lupu is noted for his poetic touch, particularly evident here in the singing lines he coaxed from the piano in the Adagio, which Brahms wrote as a homage to Clara Schumann. Music Review: From a Chair, Not a Bench, Exploring Brahms?s Poetry 2011-01-23T22:51:13Z By comparison, the Chiara program, “Brahms by Heart,” was less radical but still remarkable. Chamber Music With a Challenge: Playing From Memory 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The work it is presenting at SummerStage, “Momentum,” features classical music, including works by Brahms and Chopin, as well as hip-hop. Free Dance in Summertime New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The post-intermission symphonic closer was by Brahms, but not from his usual pile of 11 orchestral standards. How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Mehta did not push the Viennese, and Mozart and Brahms succumbed to blandness. The Toyota effect: 30 years later, one man's acoustic designs still rule how we hear music 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z A severely self-critical composer, Brahms destroyed many manuscripts he deemed imperfect. Review: At Carnegie Hall, Brahms Piano Quartets, With a New Baby as a Coda 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Trained as a conductor of Renaissance choral music and soon steeped in the cerebral avant-garde, Mr. Heras-Casado, who is 34 and Spanish, arrived at Beethoven and Brahms only in recent years. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z It was brought home that this was a matter of interpretative choice by the fact that comparable moments of introspection in his Brahms and his Liszt brought with them no such intransigence. Nikolai Lugansky ? review 2011-01-12T22:31:01Z Ms. Lack was still a teenager when she began embarking on worldwide tours, drawing praise for her intensity and warmth of tone in concertos and sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn and others. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Zimmermann and Mr. Pace began with Brahms’s unusual Scherzo in C minor from the “F-A-E” Sonata for Violin and Piano. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-23T22:29:50Z The mood lightened with a robust and jocular rendition of four of the Hungarian Dances for Piano, Four Hands by Brahms. A moving, musical tribute to Chamber Music Society's Toby Saks 2011-07-30T19:18:04Z Interpretively, not every performance clicked, especially a pulsing yet curiously ineffective account of the Brahms work. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z The German baritone Matthias Goerne sings across a range of compositional styles on this album — works by Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Berg and Shostakovich — but the feeling is often the same: anguished. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z On Friday evening, the Chiara String Quartet, this season’s quartet in residence, extended a long history of chamber music in the museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium with a program of Brahms. Chamber Music With a Challenge: Playing From Memory 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z He'd now reached the age at which Brahms was already thinking of retirement, and most composers are in some way retrenching. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Finding Brahms in Schoenberg “BRAHMS THE PROGRESSIVE” is the title of an insightful essay that Schoenberg first presented as a radio talk in 1933 in honor of the Brahms centenary. Finding Brahms in Schoenberg 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z On Tuesday, Murray Perahia played Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Mr. Haitink added Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, and the performances were basically fine, with almost everything in place. Music Review: Boston Symphony’s Two Nights at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-13T21:25:01Z Schwarz drew a lovely, warm sound in Brahms' typically Romantic idiom from both the orchestra and the Seattle Symphony Chorale. Live, lyrical and loud: Seattle Symphony program delivers supercharged sound 2011-04-01T17:35:03Z Brahms is getting special treatment too, with the Philharmonic performing his complete symphonies and concertos. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z They will dig into works by Brahms and Ginastera as part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z There is Brahms’s signature striving toward classicism beneath its warm Romantic veneer. Eschenbach and the NSO play Brahms and Tchaikovsky He reined all that in just so for the Brahms. Review: Skies clear, chamber players shine at Seattle Chamber Music Society's festival opener 2010-07-06T23:45:00Z Mr. Nelsons, who will officially become the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra next season, will lead the Lucerne orchestra in Brahms programs on the festival’s first two nights, on Aug. 15 and 16. ArtsBeat: Andris Nelsons to Conduct Lucerne Concerts 2014-02-14T20:39:47Z But it was the Brahms that took possession of at least this listener's mind and heart, and the performances of his two works were among most memorable achievements of an already memorable season. Superb Brahms at Olympic Music Festival's Saturday concert 2011-08-28T16:07:04Z The Brahms piece was written when the composer was 20. Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z Written a decade ago when the composer’s wife was dying of cancer, the concerto takes its inspiration from Brahms’ final accommodation with death, his “Four Serious Songs.” Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Gerhaher looks askance at Strauss for his choice of texts — Brahms, too. 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z This orchestra’s program at Carnegie Hall, conducted by its dynamic music director, Joshua Gersen, concludes with Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T23:00:40Z “Why so much Brahms? And while we’re at it, who needs seats?” The New York Philharmonic and the Search for a New Music Director 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Frost and Mr. Mawe prepared the elaborate, rippling arrangements of some short Brahms works: three Hungarian Dances and three songs. Review: Martin Frost, Clarinet Virtuoso, Dazzles as He Dances 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Loving the works of Brahms, though, seems a different matter. In praise of ? Brahms 2011-08-18T22:21:21Z “If you want to check the depth of a conductor to choose a music director,” he said, Brahms may be the best test. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Brahms is the focus of two midweek concerts, each at 8 p.m.: Opera & Classical Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Bridge's early music reflects his own teacher Stanford and a style chiefly derived from Brahms, and he could easily have remained a composer in the Edwardian manner. Backstage no longer: Frank Bridge at the Proms 2011-08-04T21:30:01Z But he played the Handel from scores and the Brahms from memory, and the difference showed. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z At the center is the New York premiere of the modernist German master Wolfgang Rihm’s Duo Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, a work inspired by Brahms’s Double Concerto and scored for the same instruments. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z There was fresh resonance in passages and aspects of those works that connected them to Kurtag: the strange hush of the first movement of the Brahms and the febrile motion of Beethoven’s Presto. Music Review: The Artemis Quartet, Mixing Eras at Zankel Hall 2014-03-25T22:13:54Z Of six pieces on the two programs, the Brahms was the only non-Russian work. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z The Brahms performance was wonderful, with none of the tentativeness of the earlier ones. Lucerne Festival in Switzerland Aims for Accessibility 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z But my earnest adolescence was to be dominated by Sibelius and Brahms: Fats would have to wait a decade for my devoted attention. Fats Waller by Michael Longley 2011-02-19T00:05:53Z The Brahms Handel Variations,” which we made together for the New York City Ballet, blues versus greens. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z After intermission the excellent pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins the group for a performance of Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “Haitink’s approach was more passionate than portentous, happily lacking in heaviness,” Associated Press critic Daniel J. Wakin wrote after a Brahms Symphony No. 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1991. Bernard Haitink, renowned Dutch conductor, dies at 92 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Brahms is a staple of the concert hall, his music dependably grand. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Their next Barbican residency together will be devoted to Brahms, with performances of all the symphonies and the four concertos spread across four programmes. 2013 classical and opera preview: Lulu in Wales and Disney at the ENO 2012-12-30T20:22:01Z But that approach tended not to spark in works that demand a precise ratcheting of harmonic tensions, as in an earthbound Beethoven’s Ninth from 1945-46 and a guileless Brahms’s First from 1950. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z As part of the prize for that victory he is being presented in this recital, playing works by Mozart, Brahms, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z If conflicting emotions are interwoven in the Brahms, Mr. Tan isolates them and pits them in stark opposition. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z If Beethoven embodied the heart of the recital and Brahms occupied its soul, then Schumann’s Symphonic Études served as its manic nerve center. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In place of Latin liturgy, Brahms set passages from the Lutheran Bible, fashioning a personal order of mourning and hope as well as a conscious allusion to German forebears like Schütz and Bach. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z It’s a culmination of the tradition of the piano concerto — from Mozart through Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky — and its rare appearances are thrilling events for its partisans. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Scott returned as the sole violinist in Brahms’s A Major Piano Quartet, but the glowing, unified sound of the first half did not. Touring Marlboro string quartet delights in first half of program 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The Saturday afternoon program, “The Vienna of Berg’s Youth,” included rudimentary piano works and fledgling songs by Berg that pointed to the strong influence of Schubert and Brahms. Music Review: Tribute to Composer Alban Berg at Bard Music Festival 2010-08-16T21:54:00Z And under Mr. Levine the orchestra, which plays a lot of Wagner and Mozart in the opera house, infused Brahms’s symphonic sound with both Wagnerian richness and Mozartean clarity. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But most impressive was the Brahms symphony, not a piece easily thrown together by a pickup orchestra. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Masur must surely be described as questionable for his two weeks of Brahms concerts with the New York Philharmonic in November. Music Review: Kurt Masur and Ken-David Masur at Tanglewood Festival 2012-07-23T21:55:53Z It was impressive in Schumann, Brahms, Grieg, Sibelius and the like, but to European ears less effective in the Viennese classics or the quicksilver exchanges of Janacek and Bartok. David Soyer obituary 2010-05-11T18:05:00Z Our own David Allen offered a ringing endorsement of the concert, and particularly of Honeck’s way with Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Classical Music This Week: A Jersey Search, Beethoven Galore and Schulhoff 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Before the Vienna Philharmonic’s three concerts over the weekend at Carnegie Hall, I was primed for this storied orchestra’s dashing Mendelssohn, formidable Brahms and majestic Bruckner. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The programs offered five works, ranging from Brahms’s Second Symphony to an inventive new piece by a young Iceland-based composer. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z Partly, that's because the view that Bach provided the platform on which Beethoven built, thus paving the way for Brahms, classic and Romantic all in one, is over. In praise of ? Brahms 2011-08-18T22:21:21Z If the Brahms was a bit of a puzzler, the Shostakovich Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor exceeded the crowd's high expectations. World-class musicianship on display at Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2011-01-28T19:29:03Z He’s resident pianist for the Jerusalem Quartet’s Brahms survey at the 92nd Street Y in October. Inon Barnatan at SubCulture’s PianoFest 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z One could go hear the Philharmonic play a Schumann or Brahms symphony without wincing. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z A resounding ovation brought an encore, Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5. Jon Kimura Parker shines with Vancouver Symphony | Classical review 2013-01-24T17:48:49Z His other recordings include works by Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak and Bartok. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z In 1948, he made his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in a program of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Berg and Prokofieff. Jacob Lateiner, Pianist and Scholar, Dies at 82 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z Violinists don’t get much greater than Hadelich, a beloved and regular visitor to Seattle who won a Grammy with the Seattle Symphony and will play the iconic Brahms Concerto in these concerts. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2019 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z For Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Ms. Mutter’s tone grew rounder and fuller, with a mesmerizingly well-calibrated alternation of single notes and double stops in an eloquent Adagio. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z In “Hommage,” Mr. Dean evokes the Brahms sound and style through a hazy, elusive contemporary sensibility. Emanuel Ax Concert Pairs Brahms With New Works 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z He also conducted; he later suggested that the experience of leading works by Schubert and Brahms seasoned him for the challenges of Auden and Kallman’s text. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z But the piece proved effective as a warm-up for Schumann and Brahms, who were devotees of Beethoven. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z The OMF continues Saturday and Aug. 5 with more Beethoven plus Prokofiev and Brahms. 13 top entertainment picks for July 29-Aug. 4, 2012 2012-07-25T21:49:08Z The order of the program — Carter, Brahms, Schumann, Rossini — may surprise some listeners. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z Their recording, from 1941, of the Brahms Piano Trio No. 1, catches the brash, rock-and-roll energy of Brahms like no other. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z And sure enough, there in that first festival was Brahms’s “A German Requiem” writ large, in a performance by Daniel Harding and the Staatskapelle Dresden. Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The following evening, also at 8 p.m., the Atlanta Symphony, under the baton of Robert Spano, will perform Brahms’s German Requiem and a New York premiere by Jonathan Leshnoff. Classical Music Listings for April 29-May 5 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Why was Brahms the next composer you decided to record in a historically informed way? A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z With 34 performances, Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Brahms was the most played work of Rattle’s tenure, followed by Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, which was performed 26 times. Rattle bids Berlin Philharmonic farewell as chief conductor 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z After intermission, Langrée and the orchestra returned, for a spirited and multifaceted performance of Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 in F major. A Revelatory Performance by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z But Brahms, who carefully chose texts speaking to consolation and resolve for the living rather judgment of any deceased, was ambivalent about the title. Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Gilman pondered, reporting another landslide in 1929, when the Franck beat Beethoven’s Fifth, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth and Sixth, and Brahms’s First. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Paradox, indeed, as applied to the First Symphony, with which Brahms grandly announced to the world his arrival as a symphonist. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The Gramophone thought so, touting Chailly's Brahms as an exemplar of "classical music's way of reinventing itself and staying relevant to every generation". Conductor Chailly: Appeasing La Scala's 'gods' with Italian opera 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Under the title “Air Schoenberg: Connecting Flights,” the concert, on Wednesday, March 22, includes music by Brahms, Zemlinsky, Korngold and Berg. International Street Cannibals, Feasting on Schoenberg 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The later Rattle moulds the great paragraphs of the Brahms Piano Quartet in a way that tends to blur its outlines and undermine the stark grandeur that emerges so powerfully in the earlier performance. Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Scene; Chamber Symphony; etc ? review 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z Or take a symphony like the Fourth, in which Brahms wields cross-rhythms for dramatic effect. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony is suffused with the breadth, lyricism and wayward approach to harmony of his hero, Brahms. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Without lacking vividness, the Brahms had a gentle cast in its opening; the Allegro finale sent off bright energy, but its colors were the blaze of a sunset rather than daylight brashness. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z She came and sang Brahms for me, and I engaged her. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z Written in a late Romantic, chromatic idiom, Respighi’s sonata shows the influence of Brahms, Debussy and Franck; but the aimless piece lacks the cohesion and immediate appeal of his colorful tone poems. Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Play Brahms and Respighi 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z During one stretch, she found common ground between two of Brahms’s searching intermezzos and a few of Chopin’s mercurial, lilting mazurkas. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The many Heine songs Brahms wrote as a youth were among the works that this most self-critical of composers consigned to the fireplace. Review: Two Masters Unite in a Meeting of Musical Minds 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z But by the time Brahms ratchets up the drama in the development section, Ms. Jansen and Mr. Pappano let loose all their charisma and sonic clout. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z For the Brahms, Mr. Halsey conducted the Berlin Radio Choir, which dominated a performance with piano replacing the orchestra. Review: Verdi’s Requiem, in All Its Theatricality and Resonance 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major is Brahms at his most lush and evocative. World-class musicianship on display at Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2011-01-28T19:29:03Z It's taken from a 1911 book by composer Arnold Schoenberg, in which he illuminates the harmonic language of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z They are both fine musicians who I’m sure prepared for their single rehearsal carefully, but the hand-in-glove phrasing demanded by a work such as the Brahms Sonata No. 1 in F Minor doesn’t just happen. Despite the disconnect, clarinetist and pianist put on an enjoyable recital 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z At Aspen he has conducted the third movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 and the first movement of Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphosis” in public. He Sings, He Conducts (and He's Not Bad on the Oboe) 2010-08-03T20:53:00Z The late pieces, I hadn’t played any of them until I decided to do a Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms series in concert a few years ago. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z When Andsnes has appeared at the hall, it’s been in Brahms’s Piano Quartets, the Grieg concerto with the Boston Symphony and a “Rite of Spring” as a duo with Marc-André Hamelin. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z But the unity of playing in a fairly conventional program of Mozart, Shostakovich and Brahms on Tuesday is something not to be found anywhere else. Hagen Quartet shows exquisite unity in rare SoCal concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Their difference in dance character reflects the difference between Brahms’ two suites. Mark Morris to bring ‘Socrates,’ love songs to Seattle Feb. 14-16 2014-02-10T01:50:45Z Dudamel's Brahms is broad and grand if not as measured as it was for his "Brahms Unbound" four years ago. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z At its best, a festival invites audiences to hear certain works in a specific context, as with Brahms the Progressive, a festival the Miller Theater presented some seasons ago. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z He had time to compose a violin concerto, immerse himself in scores by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, and go for long walks on a golf course near his home in Los Angeles. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z There are squares named for Brahms, who was born here, and Mahler, who headed the opera for six years. What does this critic hear at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall? The sound of the future 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Barely catching his otherworldly breath, Trifonov then made a startling transition into a downright feral player for the flashy first book of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganini. Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov creates a sensation in his L.A. recital debut at Disney Hall 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z But there's also a tautness of musical gesture that embraces the anti-Wagnerian methodology of Brahms and a sense of organic, evolutionary progression that pre-empts Sibelius. LPO/N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-01-25T18:55:00Z The ending of the Brahms first movement was so beautiful that many in the audience forgot the usual protocols and applauded vigorously. Review: Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s Halloween night concert with Seattle Symphony was all treats, no tricks 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He recently did his own transcription of Brahms' Violin Concerto for piano, very impressive. Atlanta's Robert Spano, familiar to 'Ring' fans, conducts Seattle Symphony 2010-04-21T22:58:00Z Unlike Brahms' famous double concerto, the violin and cello in Horner's piece don't challenge the orchestra or, for that matter, each other in a combative dialogue. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Serkin having done his double magic, the post-intermission part of the program was a hefty slab of Brahms, his fourth and final symphony. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z He backed off a bit, according to Daniel Beller-McKenna’s book “Brahms and the German Spirit,” calling the work a “sort of” German Requiem and a “so-called” German Requiem. Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But this was a Brahms 4th as vital and fresh as anything on the program’s first half. Review | Noseda ends his NSO season with 3 B’s, and a bang 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z And however opposed Liszt and Brahms might have been in life, surely Brahms would have admired the glorious Liszt song transcriptions played here, “Romance Oubliée” and “Die Zelle.” Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z Lutoslawski’s densely dissonant funereal music dissipated into isolated notes on a lone cello, which were then subsumed in the enveloping warmth of Brahms’s consolatory opening. A Chord Vanishing Into Eternity: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on February 25, 2014, on page C2 of the with the headline: Nodding to Brahms, But Honoring Stern . Music Review: Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, With Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax 2014-02-24T22:40:33Z “New Love Song Waltzes,” the later Brahms composition, was the first that Morris choreographed, in 1982. Mark Morris to bring ‘Socrates,’ love songs to Seattle Feb. 14-16 2014-02-10T01:50:45Z At one concert Bernstein issued a disclaimer about Gould’s interpretation of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, which featured excruciatingly slow tempos and produced scathing reviews. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z On the first half of the concert Thursday evening at David Geffen Hall, Janine Jansen was a radiant soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto, renewing that war horse with subtly ardent playing. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The performances have considerable energy and pliancy, never subsiding back into that stodgy wall of Brahms sound that sometimes mars symphonic performances. Review: CDs from Seattle Symphony, violinist James Ehnes 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z Like Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, also in D minor, the Brahms begins with a long orchestral introduction before the soloist’s softly singing entrance — passion turning into a plea. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z His early influences were German — Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss — and he found a kindred spirit in Franz Liszt, whose Hungarian Rhapsodies were inflected with Gypsy rhythms and melodies. Book review: Musician Béla Bartók was pride of two nations 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z His later conducting of Brahms' funerary Nänie, which the London Symphony Chorus flooded with resplendent tone, also took a while to cohere before rising steadily in an increasingly grand arc. Colin Davis Tribute – review 2013-06-18T16:47:35Z His Brahms First captivates in the studio, but it blazes with the Boston Symphony, from 1954, on Pristine. A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z On a visceral level, cross-rhythms may have filtered into Brahms’s music while he was walking. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z This concert marked Nigel Kennedy's return to what he describes as "probably the greatest violin concerto of them all", namely the Brahms. RPO/Litton/Kennedy – review 2012-06-14T17:13:25Z The ensemble closed its concert with a beautifully focused account of the Brahms String Sextet No. 1 in B flat. Music Review: At Merkin Concert Hall, Concertante Blends New and Old 2010-05-18T21:26:00Z Available on the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall, he conducts Schubert, Brahms and Schoenberg – yours for 9.90 euros. Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle: a tale of two conductors 2010-05-26T15:42:00Z On Friday evening Mr. Nelsons conducted the festival orchestra at the KKL Concert Hall in the first of his Brahms programs, an unusual one. In Lucerne, Andris Nelsons Is a Rising Star 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z With that bit of showmanship out of his system, Mr. Gilbert reverts to form, conducting the Philharmonic in Berg’s Violin Concerto, with Mr. Zimmermann as soloist, and Brahms’s Third Symphony. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Most music since Brahms, he thought, was a bad mistake. My hero Nikolai Medtner 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z “It played the Third Symphony conducted with Brahms,” he says. Simon Rattle's farewell tour with the Berlin Philharmonic swings into L.A. and Costa Mesa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Brahms, with less excuse, also liked to affect a Hungarian Gypsy style, as in the Rondo alla Zingarese concluding his First Piano Quartet, but the Second Sextet bears few traces of ethnicity. | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Beginning the Season With a Show of Restraint 2010-09-22T22:08:00Z “Does the world need another Brahms cycle? Not really. “ Conductor James Conlon on L.A. Opera's Grammy nominations, and why the odds are stacked against them 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The Alto Rhapsody, composed by Brahms in 1869 as a wedding gift for a daughter of his close friends Robert and Clara Schumann, opened the concert. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z Michael Tilson Thomas explores the relationship between Brahms and Schoenberg, framing the former's Piano Concerto No 2 with the latter's Variations for Orchestra and his great orchestration of Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor. The best classical concerts and operas for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z But Brahms also looks back at Bach with a formal fugue in the Finale. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Photograph: Graham de Lacy If I had to choose the music of only one composer it would be Bach, closely followed by Mozart, whose operas I love passionately, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Rameau; Brahms, Berlioz, Schumann….. Q&A: Rosemary Nalden 2013-05-10T13:14:51Z The pearly moderation that makes Lewis’s Schubert so movingly humble sometimes keeps his Brahms shy of grandeur and especially mystery. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The dances on view date back to his “Brahms Symphony,” from 1985, a work he considers a watershed in his career. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Of course, I’m not impartial about Shure, but this recording is one of the most breathtaking accounts of the Brahms First available. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Brahms took up the work again on his mother’s death in 1865, completing it three years later. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z And the curiosities of the Brahms stemmed in no small part from the conductor. Review | Lithe Brahms in an unexpected debut 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Along with that lush violin concerto, several Knussen chamber works are on the bill with works by Elgar and Brahms in the Symphony's Nov. 20 chamber-music series. Q&A with composer/conductor Oliver Knussen 2011-11-10T22:22:05Z Brahms described the work — written to thank the University of Breslau, then part of the German Empire, for giving him an honorary doctorate — as “a very boisterous potpourri of student songs.” Music Review: St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra at Riverside Church 2010-06-09T21:33:00Z During our present moment of crisis, Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with resolve and Brahms probes aching emotional ambiguities. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The videos were also a venue for suggestions of edits — a digital analogue to Brahms finishing his Violin Concerto with the help of the soloist, his friend Joseph Joachim. A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The program began with a solid but uninspired account of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, with Garrick Ohlsson as soloist. The soul of Russia, by way of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Simon’s score is a delight, propulsive and charming with a swishing jazz number and a lullaby ripped from Brahms. Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Aimard made much of that moment, to the point that one worried slightly that it wasn’t just Brahms who was stuck, but the pianist himself. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress I happen to love leftovers, but Wolf here also mischaracterizes the peculiar magic of Brahms, whose hold on the past was more of an embrace than a cling. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z We often tend to reduce composers to cliches of their last years: Brahms is bearded; Haydn is grandfatherly; Beethoven is deaf. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z Between the Brahms works he inserts elliptical movements from Schoenberg’s Six Short Piano Pieces, and it is amazing how easily Brahms’s chromatic harmonies mingle with Schoenberg’s atonal writing. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z The latest release is devoted to Johannes Brahms, and Goerne’s intense, almost overbearing approach works beautifully in these often gloomy songs. CD reviews: Eschenbach and Goerne take on somber Brahms 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Thursday’s concert was originally planned to feature Hindemith and Brahms. Music Review: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-27T02:30:08Z There are certainly connections between these two Romantics, and contrasts, too: Mendelssohn bright and impetuous, Brahms autumnal and internal. Season Finale at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The string writing looks back to Brahms, and there are some particularly expressive autumnal passages for the viola, but this performance emphasised the unease that haunts the music from its opening bars. Hough/Endellion Quartet – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z As a pianist who has performed a complete Brahms cycle, Mr. Pesic said he had noted the relish with which the composer broke out polyrhythms whenever he could. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Boyd is a terrific Brahms conductor, especially with the construction of this piece, with melodic lines leaning delicately on one another like flying buttresses supporting a cathedral. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z Some listeners may by inclined to enjoy Bach’s animated Baroque style much more than Brahms’s teeming Romanticism. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z They are all at some private party, dancing to love songs by Brahms. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z That same night, Christian Tetzlaff had set off like a rocket in Brahms's violin concerto. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z Brahms added copious rhythmic variants of his own to those of the theme itself, and all of these were expertly negotiated by Kalmar. Carlos Kalmar leads SSO in fresh take on Beethoven 2013-12-29T19:43:19Z The job title is music director, not exalted interpreter of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler. The New York Philharmonic and the Search for a New Music Director 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Enthusiastically recalled for an encore, Mr. Tritle held up a score and announced, with mock solemnity, “Brahms.” Music Review: Kent Tritle at St. John the Divine - Review 2011-11-24T22:09:11Z They also shared the concert platform in Brahms's Requiem and in lieder recitals, recording Wolf's Goethe and Mörike settings. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z Schoenberg called Brahms a progressive, and Rattle sought out underlying implications in overly familiar music of impulsive rebellion. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z In his late years Brahms was a true progressive, especially in his piano pieces, and was a composer embraced by Schoenberg as pointing toward atonality. Music Review: Renée Fleming Brings Vienna in Ferment to Carnegie Hall 2013-05-05T21:09:14Z “I love the analogy of Haydn throwing arrows into the future,” he said, “and these arrows land on the page of Schumann, of Brahms, of Prokofiev, of Stravinsky.” After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z So the non-holographic Brahms was quite creeped out after she found out about her digital counterpart’s tryst with this engineer she didn’t know. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Night at the Museum 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Instead, it ended with a virtuoso soloist and a well-known string quartet playing Mozart and Brahms. Joyful clarinet meets laid-back quartet: Anthony McGill and Pacifica combine in the Fortas chamber series. Pianist Albert Kim, who provided reliable accompaniment throughout, managed an impressively long and dramatic crescendo in the Brahms “Botschaft” and some splendid colors in the Rachmaninoff “She is as Beautiful.” For lovers of pure sound, Belov’s Persian-thread program delivers 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Both composers were moved in 1888 to the city’s ornate central cemetery, where they still lie beside one another, near Brahms’s grave. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z With his dark-tone orchestra, this is an argument for Elgar as inheritor to Brahms. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Brahms took up a large part of the second half of the concert. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at Church of the Holy Trinity 2010-06-06T22:16:00Z "It balances over the course of the season so people don't get used to a steady diet of Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart." L.A. Philharmonic's Andrew Bain takes spotlight in 'Brilliant Brass' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Brahms songs are hardly rarities, particularly on recordings, but they deserve to be heard in recital more often than they are. Music Review: Kirchschlager and Thibaudet at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-11-13T23:16:46Z Bartok’s Rhapsody for Cello and Piano, a transcription of his First Rhapsody for Violin and Piano, extends Brahms’s preoccupations with melodious virtuosity and folk-dance borrowings, though shot through with odd, eerie harmonies. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z In a way, Mr. Kalish was just one player among others in performances of works by Haydn, Schoenberg and Brahms. From New York Youth Symphony and the Chamber Music Society, Odes to Experience 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Brahms wrote the Third while on holiday in the Austrian countryside, and unlike his previous symphonies, it was warmly received. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z I shivered more than once, partly because of Brahms and partly not. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z That Gould’s astonishing playing lacked this bodily dimension comes through in the film, in a segment about his performance of Brahms’s D minor Concerto with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1962. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z The high point was a bombastic rendition of the first opus of Johannes Brahms, one of the early piano sonatas that many pianists avoid in favor of the composer’s later variations and character pieces. Pianist Christopher Taylor cranks the bombast dial a little too high 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Dohnanyi’s oeuvre deserves far more credit, a demonstration of clear-minded conducting in everything from Mozart and Beethoven to Webern and Ives, far outstripping Szell’s efforts in Brahms, Schumann and Dvorak. The Cleveland Orchestra, America’s Finest, Restarts Recording 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Written when Brahms was in his early 20s, the concerto was a radical effort to merge newness with tradition. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons’s own results with Brahms in Lucerne this summer were mixed, ranging from a lackluster Second Serenade to a superb Third Symphony. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Pittas offered two sets of dispiritingly second-rate songs by Duparc and Brahms in which the music never quite managed to elevate the texts’ kitschy earnestness. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Christopher Maltman was the baritone replacement in the Brahms, where, fine and forthright as he was, it's the chorus that is the main protagonist, with Brahms taking every opportunity for fugal writing. LSO/Gergiev – review 2013-04-02T16:45:01Z Christoph Eschenbach and the orchestra are leaving Tuesday to play, for two weeks, a predominantly Central European program in Europe, bringing Brahms and Beethoven to Munich and Vienna and Berlin. Eschenbach, NSO prepare European repertory for European tour 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In Sarajevo, the Vienna Philharmonic will perform a repertoire harking strongly back to the days of the Habsburg Empire, including Haydn, Schubert, Berg and Brahms. Sarajevo marks war centennial with message of unity to divided country 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Sévère’s evanescent and delicate approach, abetted by the often too reticent pianist Paul Montag, was the same in both pieces, elegantly capturing Poulenc’s Gallic melancholy but proving too effete for the smoldering Brahms. Young French clarinetist in fine form in D.C. debut 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The lineup also includes Beethoven, Brahms and the Monteverdi Vespers, conducted by Andrew Megill. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z But this city resonates to another sound of music - the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms. Sound of Music comes to Salzburg 2011-11-22T12:01:05Z I wanted a little more poignancy and melting power in the richly expressive passages that sound like an extension of Brahms, Mahler and Strauss. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Seated sternly before the Philharmonia Orchestra in London in the 1960s, he appeared to many to be the solemn custodian of Bach and Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The program also includes Mr. Andres’s own jazzy “How Can I Live in Your World of Ideas” and “Retro Music,” as well as selections from Brahms’s “Liebeslieder Waltzes.” Classical & Opera Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z At the time to speak of Brahms as a progressive was counterintuitive. Finding Brahms in Schoenberg 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z Sometimes the return texts are one-time messages: a taste of spam with your Brahms. Orchestras Seek BFFs Via Cellphone Texts 2010-07-21T15:00:00Z Happenings include a Met favorite, a CD-release concert, exquisite Brahms and a “Carnival of the Animals.” 5 ways to enjoy classical music in the Seattle area, April 26-27 2014-04-24T20:30:44Z I didn’t play much Brahms until I turned 40, when I suddenly thought, you know what, I really want to play the D minor concerto. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z She attempts to convince him that Brahms is more than just a doll, but he brushes her off, telling her she’s wrong about a spirit inhabiting the house. Dating is hell for women: Nightmare exes, mansplainers and “The Boy’s” broken emo brat 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z That yearning quality is also in Ms. Pite’s “Solo Echo,” inspired by Mark Strand’s poem “Lines for Winter” and two Brahms sonatas. Review: Ballet BC Touches All the Bases, but One Yearns for More 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Joachim’s concerto, about 50 minutes long, isn’t as structurally cohesive as the Brahms and Bruch concertos. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff Joins Orpheus at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-31T21:19:15Z While these snipes have softened in recent years, there was some support for that position in a February performance at the Philharmonie of Brahms’s Third Symphony, full of abrupt, willful shifts of tempo. The Berlin Philharmonic Comes to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z There was a risk of dwelling on the It-ness of it all — something fortunately mitigated by the pace of the finale, shot through with similarities to the Brahms concerto. Conductor Juraj Valcuha takes NSO program to a near-slog 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z There was no hysteria to this Brahms, just resolute intensity. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Brahms pieces for solo piano round out the program. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:20:55Z Wu Wei played three encores: his own improvisation on the traditional Chinese "Dragon Song," a Rachmaninoff Vocalise and Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z Oddly, the most problematic concert was the first, on Friday evening, with nothing but Brahms, mother’s milk for the Vienna Philharmonic. Review: A Brash Wunderkind, Now 37, Meets an August Ensemble 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z In honor of the Schumann bicentennial, this festival focuses on the relationship among Schumann, his wife, Clara, and Brahms with concerts by the Miami String Quartet, Ida and Ani Kavafian and others. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z The musical intelligentsia of the time was hardly monolithic, particularly about Brahms. Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra began their run of Brahms symphonies in Edinburgh with a performance of the First that was glorious in the end, but not without its ropey moments. LSO/Gergiev – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-21T17:44:01Z “A lot of people thought I was the guy who likes Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven — and that’s absolutely true,” Mr. van Zweden said. The New York Philharmonic’s Fresh Start: A Season Spent at Home 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Saturday’s matinee pairs the Brahms concerto with Dvorak’s String Quintet in E flat, with Alan Gilbert taking up the viola alongside the Philharmonic players. Classical & Opera Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Both times forgetting the original and surrendering to Schoenberg’s overhaul proved rewarding, even as a nagging feeling persisted that this was not what Brahms had in mind. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z Mr. Gilbert often programs Mr. Rouse with Haydn or Brahms, and they made up the bulk of this concert. Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z His first CD, a magnificent recording of Bartók's "Miraculous Mandarin Suite" and Brahms' Symphony No. 1 with the London Symphony, will be released on the Naxos label in January. The University of Washington School of Music offers eclectic lineup 2010-10-20T23:30:00Z His recordings include the complete sonatas for cello and piano of Beethoven and Brahms. Paul Olefsky, a Cellist and Educator, Dies at 87 2013-06-07T03:43:28Z The even keel at which he had led the Brahms and Beethoven had vanished. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z They also have an unsparing emotional directness — albeit one that Brahms reveals with characteristic, uneasy ambivalence. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Brahms' trio is a generous tapestry of golden-hued sonorities; the gorgeous opening Allegro is Brahms at his most breathtaking — and the entire hall did seem to stop breathing during it. Review: Skies clear, chamber players shine at Seattle Chamber Music Society's festival opener 2010-07-06T23:45:00Z She turned out to be Christiane Karg, a German operatic soprano, who had sung the Brahms Requiem at Royal Festival Hall the evening before. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1960, in a program of Vaughan Williams, Hindemith, Bach and Brahms. Karen Tuttle, Violist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-12-25T04:40:31Z But the passage near the end of the Brahms, as the chorus sings that all beauty must fade, was handled by Mr. Shapiro and his singers with a gentle, memorable hush. Music Review: Cecilia Chorus of New York in a Program at Carnegie Hall 2014-04-30T22:00:49Z In vast swaths of the Brahms Sonata No. 1 and the Shostakovich Sonata, Bellom simply engulfed the poor cellist. Review | Both musicians shine, but balance between piano and cello is off 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But Brahms was also a Classicist, trying to adapt the Beethoven heritage to the new age of Romanticism. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z On Friday night, he will be the violinist in a Brahms sonata and a Dvorak piano trio, joining the cellist Evan Drachman and the pianist Doris Stevenson, who themselves will play Grieg’s Cello Sonata. Classical Music Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z That was particularly effective in the Brahms, but it worked its magic in the finale of the Beethoven too. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: A Conductor and a Violinist Turn Fresh Eyes on a Beloved Beethoven and a Brahms 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z Lucky audience members who attended both were taken on an exploration of Brahms’s crucial involvement with both Robert and Clara Schumann. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Soprano Danielle Talamantes was the highlight of the Brahms, a warm, consoling presence in the fifth movement added by the composer after the work’s premiere in 1868, probably as a tribute to his late mother. Review | National Philharmonic soloists boost an otherwise delayed, derivative event 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z And Muti’s reading of the first movement of the Brahms proved to give a similarly dark look to a work that is often inadequately stereotyped as “pastoral.” Review | Romantic tropes for the 21st century: the Chicago Symphony on tour 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z In the concert's second half, a lack of a flowing musical line in his reading of Brahms' Symphony No. 2 became even more problematic, conveying little of the score's sustained drama and pastoral beauty. L.A. Phil concert favors theatrics over polished music-making 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Unlike typical left-hand pieces intended to fool the listener into thinking both hands are at play, Brahms didn’t pretend a hand can do any more than expected. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z At home there would be Beethoven and Brahms, but on the set he’d be accompanying stories and puppet shows with whistles and duck calls. Percussionist Paul Hansen keeps the beat all over Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:03Z Brahms was one of Dvorak’s earliest and most ardent supporters, although he agreed with critics who deemed Dvorak’s genial Symphony No. 8 almost too tuneful. Music Review: From a Chair, Not a Bench, Exploring Brahms?s Poetry 2011-01-23T22:51:13Z They tell us, with the reductionism of hindsight, that this inheritance was “a burdensome responsibility imposed on Brahms by the musical intelligentsia of his day.” Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z He brought expressive muscle to both Brahms scores, emphasizing rich low string sonorities and spectacular brassiness. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Brahms wrote his in 1891, after he had heard the Mozart quintet performed and grown infatuated with the clarinet’s sound. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “It has a lion’s head. I often go and have a little chat with it before I am going to bless Brahms.” Simon Rattle's farewell tour with the Berlin Philharmonic swings into L.A. and Costa Mesa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z LUCERNE, Switzerland — Bernard Haitink and Brahms are big at the this year. ArtsBeat: Lucerne Easter Festival: Haitink Holds Up a Mirror for Promising Maestros 2011-04-18T15:00:28Z The Vienna Philharmonic played towering works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler over four programs. Nine Concerts in Seven Days at the World’s Most Famous Concert Hall 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z I’ve heard from more than one reader over the years averring that an orchestra’s role is simply to play the music of Beethoven, Brahms and their ilk: Forget contemporary stuff, much less diversity. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z But, at the end of the concert, after the Brahms symphony, Mr. Jansons offered a perfect encore: a rollicking early Ligeti piece, “Concert Romanesc,” awash in Hungarian folk music idioms yet spiked with modernist wildness. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The theater is being run by a division of N.Y.U., the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, which this weekend is staging a chamber opera, “The Liebeslieder Waltzes,” by Brahms. Rebuilt Theater Opening Amid Debate 2010-12-10T22:43:00Z The only weakness with the Brahms was that it sounded a little too much like a bunch of friends playing music. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z The violinist Daniel Hope and the cellist Paul Watkins each produced a rich, seductive tone and found a nuanced balance between the virtuosity and warmth that the Brahms Double Concerto demands. Music Review: Students Meet the ?Eroica? Challenge With Gusto 2010-12-29T22:19:42Z What stays with you most of all is what Brahms whispers, rather than what he shouts. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z And Brahms was a lifelong companion of Stern’s, not only with his Violin Concerto and Double Concerto, but also with his three violin sonatas and other chamber works. Music Review: Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, With Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax 2014-02-24T22:40:33Z He remade his Beethoven and Brahms in majestic fashion, dwelled admiringly on Bruckner, and added to his earlier Mahler, not least with a touching Ninth and a vast First that astounded Leonard Bernstein. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Brahms wrote the first book while infatuated with Julie Schumann, the beautiful daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann; his distress over her marriage imbues the second book with a more despairing mood. Music Review: Of Maidens and Monks, In a Cozy Concert 2011-04-26T20:15:29Z You can put to sleep both Caucasians and people of color by Brahms’s Lullerby. Style Invitational Week 1139: 64 different ways to lose! 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z On Saturday, for the first half of her recital, she brought poise and sensitivity to two early Brahms ballades, and then offered a rhapsodic, poetic performance of Schumann’s fantastical, challenging “Kreisleriana,” a 35-minute suite. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Instead, De Ridder chose the early Serenade No. 1, an underexposed gem in which the emerging Brahms signatures are in place, although stamped with the lingering fingerprints of Beethoven — especially the fifth movement. How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z She sang songs of Mahler and Brahms with glowing warmth and grave beauty, and had an elusive, expressionist Berg song sounding like the most sublimely lyrical music imaginable. Jessye Norman Was a Diva, in the Best Way 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z He will also perform Brett Dean’s new “Hommage à Brahms,” three short works conceived as interludes between the four Brahms pieces. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z He largely avoided Germany after the war, but the most performed composers in his first decade in Boston were Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z He actually alternates the individual Brahms and Schoenberg works. Finding Brahms in Schoenberg 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z “Only music, only a Brahms symphony, comes close” to the sensation of those prelapsarian gallops, she writes. ‘As It Turns Out,’ a Sister’s Remembrance of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z The MSO is the size of an opera orchestra, so doing Brahms or Strauss wouldn’t be ideal. Munich Symphony Orchestra tries too hard not to drown out guitarists 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Composed in 1906, it's regulation Edwardian romanticism, indebted to Brahms and Dvořák, with more than a hint of the tea room or the palm court, too. Prom16: BBCNOW/Van Steen – review 2013-07-25T13:30:00Z In some respects, this Brahms set is a commemoration of Cerminaro's achievements as solo horn, and of his long musical friendship with Schwarz. Review: CDs from Seattle Symphony, violinist James Ehnes 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z You could argue that the Brahms double concerto is not about size and feeling at all. Eschenbach and the NSO play Brahms and Tchaikovsky Curious about the abundance of Brahms and Bridge? Post your questions for Proms director Roger Wright 2011-07-11T11:54:33Z Clara Schumann, encouraged by a group of close associates that included Brahms, suppressed the music of this period, fearful that it would betray signs of her husband's mental deterioration. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms' Double Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl. Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Brahms’ First Symphony, after intermission, benefited from some of the same Petrenko attributes as “Don Juan.” Cutting the Hollywood Bowl down to size 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Brahms wrote his “German Requiem” during a period in which he suffered the loss of his mother, and not long after the death of his friend Robert Schumann. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I recall a radio broadcast of a 2008 New York Philharmonic performance of the Brahms B flat with Andsnes and Muti that was even more inspired than the reading heard on Thursday. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z The chorus offset this with thrice-familiar fare, the Brahms Requiem, in a perfectly respectable reading, adding the warm baritone Rob McGinness as second soloist. Review | Lost heroes return in two local concerts 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Gould stopped playing live concerts in 1964, and the Brahms episode is sometimes cited as a factor contributing to that decision. Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z To stick this Russian pops potboiler between Stravinsky and Brahms made no musical sense whatsoever. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z It is quibbling, of course, to take any issue with a musician of Ax’s gifts, and his encore — the Brahms Intermezzo, Op. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Its glowing sound could be deployed just as beautifully in works by Webern and Berio as in luxurious performances of Brahms and Dvorak. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z “She came in and read Brahms’s Second Symphony with us,” Tiscione said. Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Schall would practice a Reich marimba lick for 20 or 30 minutes at a time, adding exotic tinges to whatever Bach or Brahms recording I was reviewing. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It was a program by three B’s, but not the three B’s classical listeners expect: the composers were Berio, Berg and Brahms. Review | Noseda ends his NSO season with 3 B’s, and a bang 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Cleaving to the Romantic notion that your first instincts ought to be trusted, Brahms advocated the slighter, more mercurial symphonic fantasy Schumann originally produced in 1841. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2013-06-12T16:57:53Z Short works by Chopin, Ravel, Debussy, Beethoven, Brahms and others rub shoulders. James Rhodes: Bullets and Lullabies 2010-12-26T00:05:07Z In January, he appeared with the pianist Emanuel Ax in Los Angeles, in a program that included Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. A Star Maestro, Fighting Brain Cancer, Finds Peace in Music 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z “Notable Encounters” was imagined as “a museum docent’s guide” to a particular piece of music — in this case, the trios of Brahms and their metaphorical relationship to his life. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Composers, critics, and concertgoers tend to think of Romanticism as a style that’s friendly and familiar, whether it’s offered in the form of a Schubert sonata, a Tchaikovsky symphony, or a Brahms quintet. Cultural Clicks: Tweets from God, the Songs of Summer, and Soccer Art 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z "This last year we've been celebrating the music of Johannes Brahms," he says. Canadian Brass show features new members, familiar humor 2011-12-08T21:42:06Z Wednesday solo recital, will be making a case for Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. Free Seattle chamber-music recitals can be worth their weight in gold 2012-07-06T23:15:05Z Parents have always sung simple, repetitive and soothing songs to their children to get them to drop off and Brahms's lullaby, written 150 years ago, is one of the most enduring. Readers recommend: children's songs ? the results 2011-02-17T16:01:23Z That was the case in the opening movement of the Beethoven too, but there Mr. Luisi’s rebalancing proved fascinating; in the Brahms, it created messy textures and a confused sense of ensemble, if only fleetingly. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z The smile in her tone, meanwhile, robs Brahms of his earnestness: she was delightful in Sonntag above all. Roocroft/Martineau ? review 2011-03-04T18:05:51Z Hutchinson's "Brahms Afoot" — which might be described as a suite of alternately sly and courtly male-female tussles — suits him well, he says. Local dancer Ezra Dickinson: What can't he do? 2012-01-19T20:45:04Z Always offhand on the subject of other composers, Britten considered Brahms a bore, his First Symphony "ugly and pretentious"; his Second, "dull". Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z Hewitt never allows her Brahms to linger – always a good rule. Angela Hewitt 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z Two encores – a wonderfully plush account of Solveig's Song from Grieg's Peer Gynt, an ebullient Brahms Hungarian Dance – maintained the sense of something very special indeed. RCO/Jansons 2010-08-31T21:00:00Z A deep musical thinker — someone once said that to her the ocean was only knee-deep — she sought the spiritual core in the weightiest works of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z But the works on this excellent recording are prime examples of how Brahms the “progressive,” as Schoenberg called him, subsumed ancient forms and methods to look forward, even in sadness. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Brahms and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z When she tried to summon the right character for a series of Brahms Ballades in the quarterfinal round of the competition, she said, she thought about the grief and suffering in Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Schoenberg rewrote Brahms; Shostakovich, when someone bet him he couldn't, reinvented Tea for Two by Vincent Youmans in well under an hour. In praise of ? musical reinvention 2011-01-04T00:13:02Z Also on the program is Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor, featuring cellist Adam Cathcart, and Brahms' Serenade No. 1 in D major. Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra makes Benaroya Hall debut with 'German Masterworks' 2011-01-13T21:09:10Z Andrew Keeling’s chorale, for example, took inspiration from reggae; James O’Donnell contributed a deft Brahms imitation; the baritone and composer Roderick Williams chose to reflect the quotidian in what Whitehead described as a “wonky tango.” Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Some have heard in the end of Brahms’s Fourth grimness and destruction, a kind of gorgeous annihilation. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z After the kinetic tour through Brahms, he returned for an encore alongside the orchestra. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The jewel of the set, though, is a live 1960 performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto in D minor with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. Classical Playlist: John Adams, Handel, Lewis Spratlan and More 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Only a Brahms selection, “Variations on a Theme of Haydn,” did not suit their temperament, probably because it requires more shading than fireworks. Christina and Michelle Naughton, twin piano act, are perfectly in sync at Kennedy Center The piece nods to Brahms’s trio for the same instruments. Review: Chamber Music Society Performs Ligeti’s Trio 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z In August, she conducted a concert of Brahms and Mahler at the Hollywood Bowl and is an assistant conductor with the orchestra. L.A. Phil's Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts herself with aplomb 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “Brahms makes you move slow with only a few notes. I’m not going to play this in the jazz repertory, but I do find myself saying, ‘Oh, I don’t need seven notes more. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z And, next year, all the Brahms symphonies and the German Requiem. Dudamel abides 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z Brighter colors emerge fleetingly — there’s a viola-like falsetto in the third Brahms song — but they are dogged by shadows. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z His Beethoven and Brahms Symphonies remain among the most tightly reasoned and precisely executed on the market, and his collaborations on those composers’ piano concertos, with Leon Fleisher, are still the gold standard. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The rest of the printed program was devoted to Brahms: the Third Symphony and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn, presumably intended as a link from the Haydn symphony to the Brahms. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-14T22:10:53Z It’s tempting to look for clues to this obsession in Brahms’s biography. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Brahms has visited their home; Mahler, though “wet from his baptism,” is still “our man.” Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Three concerts of Brahms by Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe are part of a cycle that will conclude during the summer. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z Brahms’s humanist requiem is particularly appropriate to honor those still suffering, since it focuses on the living, unlike the traditional Requiem Mass in the Roman Catholic liturgy, which opens with prayers for the dead. Music in Review: Music in Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys 2012-11-11T23:08:21Z My voice was louder than all the others, so my music teacher gave me a Brahms song. Portrait of the artist: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano 2011-07-18T21:31:00Z Mr. Nelsons also plans to lead subscription concerts featuring works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, as well as works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. ArtsBeat: Andris Nelsons to Open Boston Symphony Season With a Flourish 2014-03-05T19:45:37Z There were also three lovely chorale preludes by Brahms, a particular favorite of the patron whose gift continues to finance Trinity’s Concerts at One, Ms. Louprette said, including Pipes at One. Critic’s Notebook: Bach at One and Pipes at One at Trinity’s St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-10-07T20:05:50Z He followed the Haydn with Brahms’ Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, the last piano sonata Brahms wrote, at the age of 20. Yefim Bronfman: Flying fingers and heartfelt Prokofiev | Classical review 2012-12-11T19:02:01Z The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Alice Tully Hall on May 16 with a program of music by Mendelssohn and Brahms; chambermusicsociety.org. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Performs ‘Tales From the Nine Bells’ 2014-05-07T20:58:48Z In the end, it was neither the best of Brahms interpretations nor the worst but seemed to please the clap-happy audience. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z After tonight, Seattle Symphony's next Rush Hour show is scheduled for Feb. 11, with guest conductor Douglas Boyd leading the orchestra through Brahms' Symphony No. 4. A new happy hour in town ? at Seattle Symphony 2010-12-08T21:39:00Z He plays Chopin and Schumann, as he does so often, but there’s also something of a novelty for these fingers: the Brahms Op. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But its artistic director, Lourdes Lopez, always has a treat in store: This year it’s the company premiere of “Brahms/Handel,” the 1984 choreographic collaboration between Twyla Tharp and Jerome Robbins. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Just as Zemlinsky was looking backward to Brahms, the young Shostakovich seemed to conjure Tchaikovsky or Rimsky-Korsakov at times in his first piano trio, a single movement inspired by a youthful romantic attachment. Review | Czech piano trio makes Washington debut 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Both programs held music by Johannes Brahms — February's the late Second Concerto, Sunday's the early Four Ballades. Andsnes adds a bit of emotion to his repertoire 2011-04-04T17:07:00Z Instead, there’s Brahms, still an underrated influence on the Second Viennese School, with “A German Requiem.” 4 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Still, the Brahms performances were excellent, especially Mr. Ax’s account of the mighty Second Piano Concerto. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z He begins with an exhilarating account of Brahms’s daunting Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, which does not sound all that daunting as it is played here so effortlessly. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Harrison Birtwistle and More 2014-04-30T18:49:23Z Brahms might even have been inspired by her third movement Polonaise in his First Concerto’s third-movement Hungarian dance. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In concert, the Brahms symphony, Rattle says, comes like a “benediction” after the “apocalyptic music” of the three modernists. Simon Rattle's farewell tour with the Berlin Philharmonic swings into L.A. and Costa Mesa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z He was speaking about late Brahms, but that idea could almost stand as a maxim for Lewis’s artistry as a whole. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In 1975-76, Mr. Ashton created “Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan” and “A Month in the Country” for her. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Multiple works by Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky are also on the roster. Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2013 summer fest lineup 2013-03-29T23:20:26Z Johannes Brahms and the Olympic Musical Festival were on excellent terms with each other at the festival's penultimate weekend concert Saturday afternoon. Superb Brahms at Olympic Music Festival's Saturday concert 2011-08-28T16:07:04Z Ophelia’s laments on death and love, for which Brahms used a German translation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” are taken from Act IV, Scene 5. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: Thomas Ad?s Conducts Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-25T20:35:00Z Stephen Hough was the soloist in the Brahms – forthright, passionate and technically flawless. BBCSO/Davis – review 2013-04-15T17:13:40Z The production dispensed with orchestra, using Brahms’s four-hand-piano reduction of the score. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z He also oozed accented charm as he told the audience about the Brahms Serenade No. 1, which doesn’t get played as often as it perhaps should. L.A. Chamber Orchestra gets a hand from Joshua Bell and guest conductor Jaime Martín 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z In its Manifest Legacy festival the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is hoping to show that Brahms inherited Beethoven’s “artistic spirit.” Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z But the Philharmonic did well to pair the Schumanns with their great friend Johannes Brahms for a tightly focused evening of works written in the 1840s and ’50s. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Brahms for the Schumanns Brahms set the agenda for the first concert of the Collegiate Chorale’s 69th season, presented at on Wednesday night. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z Over the next month, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center offers Manifest Legacy, five programs charting Beethoven’s influence on Brahms. Music Review: Piano Trios From a Pair of Kindred Masters 2011-02-08T22:23:04Z Mahler, Berlioz, Holst, Brahms, Bach, Schumann and Mozart are brazenly conscripted and required to contribute their best bits to the business in hand. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z It was the music of Brahms, however, that was always closest to Mr. Vogt, for the solace of its melancholy. Lars Vogt, Acclaimed Pianist and Conductor, Is Dead at 51 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Though Wagner is usually credited with beginning the journey towards atonality that Schoenberg continued and systematised in his 12-note method, Brahms was the great figure to whom Schoenberg was closest musically. VPO/Tilson Thomas – review 2013-04-10T17:15:01Z Mr. Ax opened with a Brahms piece you almost never hear performed: the Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, composed before he turned 20. Emanuel Ax Concert Pairs Brahms With New Works 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z In the four selections by Brahms with which Mr. Nasseri opened, his coloring was sometimes erratic as he struggled to adjust to the instrument and the hall’s acoustics. Music Review: Soheil Nasseri, Running the Gamut at Merkin Hall 2013-09-04T21:09:01Z The program concluded with an ardent rendition of Brahms’s Piano Trio in C. Music Review: Lysander Piano Trio Performs at Weill Recital Hall 2014-04-08T22:14:34Z The 90-minute service ended with a cellist's rendition of the childhood bedtime classic, "Brahms's Lullaby." `Don't be afraid': Final words from Seamus Heaney 2013-09-03T06:04:39Z Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev were favorites, and done with aplomb; though there is no Mahler, Bruckner or Shostakovich here, despite his advocacy for all three composers, he made his way through Brahms and Tchaikovsky. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Schumann, like Brahms, was inspired by the Hungarian violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, especially while writing this grand sonata of turbulent contrasts and lyrical interludes. Music Review: Violin and Piano, in an Evening?s Conversation 2011-05-06T21:51:12Z This Swansea festival recital launched a programme that will form the basis of his solo work well into 2013, boldly putting, or pitting, his own new Second Sonata against the Third Sonata of Brahms. Stephen Hough – review 2012-10-10T14:25:13Z After intermission Mr. Zimmermann was joined by principal and associate principal players from the Philharmonic for a glowing, supple account of Brahms’s String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, a remarkable early work. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-23T22:29:50Z With Bach or Brahms, we try to reproduce the music the way the composers wrote it and people don’t call it rigid,” she said. Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s a page that is unusually sparse for Brahms, alternating between music for the violin and cello, in duet, and the piano alone. A Lullaby, a Caress: Yo-Yo Ma, Ax and Kavakos on Brahms 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Brahms created a grand dialogue here, and Mr. Bell and Mr. Langrée ran with it, matching, countering and parrying each other’s expressive gestures with a captivating vividness. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival, Louis Langrée Conductor 2012-08-19T21:50:48Z As Gould recalled in a radio interview in 1963, he was swept up with Baroque music at the time of the Brahms performance and trying to flesh out Baroque elements in Brahms. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z And the selection that followed, a piano interlude — Brahms’s Intermezzo in E minor — felt a bit random, though Tao suspended time in freezing cascades of sound. Review: At the Guggenheim, They Heart New York and Indoor Dance 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z In his probing performances these pensive and mystical late Brahms works seemed anything but anticlimactic. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z From the Venetian masters to Bach or Handel to Mozart, Beethoven or Brahms ... they all improvised. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z Playing the Brahms concertos on a modern piano with modern orchestras, there were always balance problems. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z In all his sonatas Brahms made the pianist an equal if not dominant partner, and Mr. Golan, with the piano lid wide open, challenged Mr. Rachlin with his fire, virtuosity and sheer amplitude. Music in Review: Julian Rachlin and Itamar Golan at 92nd Street Y 2012-12-09T23:04:01Z Andsnes was present and accounted for at Thursday night's concert, performing the scheduled Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat with a substitute conductor, the capable Italian maestro Gianandrea Noseda. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z Brahms’s first Piano Trio reflected his admiration for Robert Schumann and his adoration of Clara Schumann. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z For the Dec. 9 program, he plays Book 2 of Debussy’s “Images,” the premiere of Saad Haddad’s “Vignettes” and Brahms’s early, epic Piano Sonata No. 3. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in December 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Opens Saturday with works by Beethoven, Brahms, Enescu and Honegger, and continues through July 26. Cellist Arron: chamber music champion, Seattle chamber-fest fan 2013-06-19T23:07:26Z 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. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z You also write in the liner notes that “Brahms on the piano is definitely not for children.” A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z You anticipated my next question — whether you see connections between the respective late works of Schubert and Brahms? ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Small wonder that these were among the pieces Schoenberg cited in “Brahms the Progressive,” the famous essay he wrote for the Brahms centenary in 1933. Music Review: Stephen Hough, Putting Piano Music in Perspective 2014-04-14T22:14:42Z Koh says her openness to new musical vistas encourages a fresh approach to something as familiar as the Brahms concerto. Violinist Jennifer Koh bridges past and present 2012-03-15T20:58:04Z Program managers say there is now a demand to hear not only Brahms and Beethoven but also Bruckner, Mahler, even Prokofiev. China’s Smaller Cities Struggle to Cultivate an Interest in Classical Music 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z She also offered an intimate interpretation of an early song by Zemlinsky, a disciple of Brahms whose later works became more harmonically adventurous. Music Review: Stirring the Late Romantics? Libido 2010-02-18T00:40:00Z Not that Mr. Kirchner’s magnificent chords, as Daniel Phillips described them from the stage, were slighted, let alone those of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Performances at the 92nd Street Y and the Brooklyn Academy 2010-04-20T22:44:00Z And chief among the honored are the city’s musical greats, which is why the graves of Brahms and Schoenberg receive such regular foot traffic. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z But a week later, with the Berlin Philharmonic, he balanced natural flow and robust urgency in Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Brahms’s Second Symphony. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Schonberg wrote that Shure’s Brahms was “massive and rocklike, as if he were carving the concerto from the piano.” Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Many, ranging from the lyrical “Brahms Waltzes” to the stormy and ultimately triumphant “Revolutionary,” can be seen on Thursday, her birthday. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z Combining the concerto's main themes with Gypsy folk music, it strayed stylistically too far from Brahms for comfort. RPO/Litton/Kennedy – review 2012-06-14T17:13:25Z The Brahms symphony performance, though energetic, had some shaky patches. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The piece is built on a theme drawn from Brahms’s piano quintet, but what is unique about Beach’s style? For a Trailblazing Female Composer, a Prestigious Recording 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The Martha Graham Dance Company is performing “The Legend of Ten,” from 2010, also to Brahms, during its current season at City Center. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z By and large, when pianists play Bach or Handel, you don’t want to hear an imitation of the harpsichord, much less with Brahms. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z His altered style was once again on display this Sunday, in a program of pieces by Brahms, Schumann, and Chopin, and he delivered intellectual and aural shocks from the very first notes that he played. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Ultimately Moss describes most of what she does as building long-term relationships with artists she feels display an out-of-the-generic-box "creative bent above and beyond doing the best Brahms symphony." Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Under Szell’s baton, an orchestra was a highly polished, precision machine, and in music by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák and Wagner, he was untouchable. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z "You wouldn't want to learn orchestration from Brahms," Knussen said, or words to that effect. A guide to Toru Takemitsu's music 2013-02-11T17:12:00Z One of the all-time Seattle favorites returns to the ivories at Meany Hall, with a President’s Piano Series recital of Chopin and Brahms — catnip to keyboard fans. 9 Seattle-area classical music performances to go to this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Bidini’s performance held the Brahms piece together by its reticence and emotional vulnerability, especially in the second theme of the first movement and the longing, hesitating variations of the second. Review | From the Trio Solisti, an understated, yet moving concert of Romantic piano trios 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z This Brahms was lithe and sinewy, even angular, a little bouncy in the first movement, a little down-to-earth in the ethereal passages of the third. Review | Lithe Brahms in an unexpected debut 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The long-awaited concert delivered a powerful musical statement, with Beethoven’s noble “Egmont” Overture and the mighty Symphony No. 1 of Brahms. Review: After 20-month absence, Seattle Symphony music director back to conduct before a pumped-up crowd 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms all “loved and had keen interest in C.P.E. Bach’s music,” Mr. Serkin adds in the recording’s liner notes. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z With Brahms, he added, “you have somebody at your side who is very much like you, and suffering like you. Whereas you are next to Schubert, and say, ‘Who is this giant?’” Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Then again, Schoenberg titled an influential essay “Brahms the Progressive,” analyzing the Brahms who explored daring harmonic paths and, in his late works, even anticipated the breakdown of tonality. | Classical: Still Elusive: Brahms, in Concert 2014-05-09T23:01:41Z A specialist in the music of Central European composers — notably Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Bruckner — he had built a respectable if not scintillating career amid the musical and political repressions of East Germany. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Though generally considered a calmer character than Schumann, Brahms was no stranger to extremes himself. Chamber-music fest opens Eastside concerts 2011-08-04T20:01:09Z Brahms’ Second Symphony in the second half put the extreme anxieties of these Second Viennese School composers in striking perspective. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z I take the same view of Elgar that Schoenberg took of Brahms. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The first was Brahms’ arrangement for the left hand alone of Bach’s Chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Martineau's playing, meanwhile, was exemplary, thrilling and infinitely sensitive, in Brahms above all. Boesch/Martineau ? review 2011-04-04T21:00:01Z He also loves Brahms, whose music he calls very difficult. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Pairing the Grieg with the Brahms offered a stark contrast in two faces of passion, one fraught and anxious, the other lyrical and serene. Violinist Ji Young Lim struts in a Phillips Collection recital 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Mena masterfully landed it and, in doing so, offered a reminder of what we can still learn from Brahms: Sometimes the best way to hit hard is with a soft touch. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Together, they made this a Brahms to remember. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z In the first half of the recital, Perahia conveyed a sense of pianistic perfection to a series of small pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Brahms. Pianist Murray Perahia scales the Everest of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' in a momentous performance 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Yet he had forced himself to participate in a performance of Brahms’s C minor Piano Quartet because the cellist, Robert Martin, a close colleague, was playing his final concert as director of the conservatory. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Bartok, Stravinsky and other composers came to perform; Schoenberg spoke on his “Variations,” with Rosbaud giving examples, and also sent in thoughts on “Brahms the Progressive.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Better still, they offered a set of striking interpretive insights into thrice-familiar works: They found the proto-Romantic fervor in Mozart, the Mendelssohnian lightness in Brahms, and the operatic exuberance and scope in Mendelssohn. Review | Old is new again in Stradivari Anniversary Concert at Library of Congress 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z A month later, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which ended its own divisive lockout earlier this season, will come to Carnegie with its mighty chorus to perform Brahms’s “German Requiem.” Carnegie Hall to Commission 125 New Works 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The era when Brahms was the third titan in music's "Three Bs" is long gone too. In praise of ? Brahms 2011-08-18T22:21:21Z The last iteration of Pulsations, a festival that Pichon established in Bordeaux, France, set Brahms’s “A German Requiem” in a Nazi-era submarine base, the choir roaming the audience. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Martinu was a strikingly prolific composer who, like Brahms, turned late to symphonies. Czech guest conductor leads pianist Igor Levit in strong debut at NSO 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z She found a groove within the Brahms score, abandoned the outward focus that can make her performances overly stiff and showed what she is capable of when she lets loose. At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can’t Beat a Greek God 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z After intermission Joshua Bell joined the orchestra for the Brahms Violin Concerto. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival, Louis Langrée Conductor 2012-08-19T21:50:48Z Surely both Brahms’s “German Requiem” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” to name just two very different examples, wrestle hard with existential uncertainty. Music Review: Cecilia Chorus of New York in a Program at Carnegie Hall 2014-04-30T22:00:49Z Listen closely to Brahms’s Adagio, and you may notice a destabilizing irregularity that is built into the rhythmic texture and lends it buoyancy and unease. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But after an intense, moody opening, the Brahms was tentative at times, rising to the climaxes but dissipating in energy between them. Music Review: Orchestral Recitations Of 2 Symphonic Poems 2011-04-14T22:04:47Z Here, though, there is considerable thickness of Brahms. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The Apollo Trio holds court on Friday with works by Beethoven, Clara Schumann and Ravel; Sunday’s concert features more piano trios — by Beethoven, Strauss and Brahms — played by the Sassmannshaus-DeSilva Piano Trio. Classical & Opera Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Something similar transpired during Brahms’s lengthy and majestic Violin Concerto, which followed. Review: A Rising Star Debuts With the Philharmonic 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Ohlsson continues his survey of the piano works of Brahms with a concert focusing on works dedicated to, or in part about, Clara Schumann. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The musicologist and conductor Leon Botstein said that Brahms was acutely aware that he lived in a time in which modernizing forces threatened a rupture with the past. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Concerts in the Heights, an all-female quintet, will perform works by Brahms and Mendelssohn. Spare Times for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:40:03Z What the society’s program on Sunday afternoon showed, curiously, was not the kinship between Beethoven and Brahms but the distance between them. Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z In the first two movements of the Brahms, Mr. Luisi’s balances were inconsistent: in several passages subsidiary lines were at least as prominent as the principal ones. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z The parents quickly bolt — they desperately need a vacation, they tell Greta — leaving her with Brahms and a detailed list of how to care for him. Review: ‘The Boy,’ in Which a Doll May be Alive, or the Heroine May Be Mad 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Wednesday’s program of Brahms — the “Academic Festival” Overture, the Violin Concerto and the Fourth Symphony — was fully satisfying. Music Review: Staatskapelle Dresden, at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-22T21:44:54Z And the serenely beautiful Brahms performance he conducted brought healing and solidarity to a wounded city. Times Critics Remember Philharmonic?s Earlier Days 2010-05-07T20:49:00Z But Beecham catered to audiences raised on Beethoven, Brahms and the Romantics, and worked in sizable halls that raised concerns that smaller forces might fail to register. Music Review: ‘Messiah,’ by Distinguished Concerts International New York 2012-11-26T22:07:22Z Stuart MacRae's Gravity distils gestures that are huge in Brahms 2 into concentrated strands – a pseudo-lyrical violin melody here, a heroic brass fanfare there, gently shifting rhythms about. BBCSSO/Donald Runnicles ? review 2011-04-10T21:31:01Z The two soloists, top-class leaders among emerging international artists, played as if they were chamber partners, each listening to and answering the other while Sinaisky wrapped that warm blanket of Brahms harmonies around them. Review: Guest conductor Sinaisky puts sizzle in Symphony's night 2010-03-19T19:02:00Z In January, Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn” had buoyant sound and a firm structural sense while remaining easygoing. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z It plans to play the Brahms quartets by heart, among other works. Met Museum to Expand Its Musical Offerings With New Breuer Space 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Why Mr. Gilbert included this particular new piece along with the two Brahms works was not apparent. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Keeping with that tradition, the musicians will do away with their scores for all three of Brahms’s string quartets. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It recorded nearly all the piano trio repertory — Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns and others — mostly on the Philips label, through the boom years of LPs and into the digital age. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z The same performance prompted Caryl Brahms to perceive Gough's "extraordinary capacity for keeping speech straining at the leash; for pent-up emotion; and for the cut and parry and flash of word-play". Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z “Dvorák was more agitated and vigorous than the intellectual Brahms, but No. 6 was inspired by Brahms’ symphonies. Czech conductor will lead SSO in Beethoven ‘jewel’ 2013-05-23T20:27:07Z Brahms himself put a lot of rhetoric into the First and Fourth and the “German Requiem,” almost enough, apparently, to satisfy Mr. Gatti. Review: Vienna Philharmonic’s Familiar and Fierce Show of Brahms 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z With the British tenor Mark Padmore and his compatriot pianist Paul Lewis performing songs of Schumann and Brahms at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday evening, it was mostly a meeting of minds, and fine ones. Review: Two Masters Unite in a Meeting of Musical Minds 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z In deliberate, methodical fashion, he has ticked off the Mahler, Sibelius, Brahms and Schumann symphonies in recent seasons. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z You might sense late Brahms in the measured reverie of “Passages for Piano,” while in “Forbidden Parallels” the influences of gamelan and early Copland intertwine amiably. Classical Recordings: Ethan Wickman and Nicholas Phillips 2011-02-06T02:08:05Z Like the Schumann, Brahms opens this symphony with a three-chord burst, but from there, it couldn’t do more to differ. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The program of Rossini, Beethoven and Brahms in itself was nothing remarkable. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z With Brahms, it is much more monumental, a kind of orchestral-sonata form. Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z Rather, it was standard Haydn and Brahms on the menu. In Yo-Yo Ma concert with L.A. Chamber Orchestra, simplicity outshines the showmanship 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Eight moody pictures of her appear in the slim CD booklet and none of Brahms. Brahms: The Violin Sonatas/ Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis | CD review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z The Brahms Violin Concerto is a musical old master painting. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Wagner said that Brahms's Handel variations, which McCawley played before the interval, showed what could still be done with old forms by someone who knew how to use them. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z The program offers the New York premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s “Bolts of Loving Thunder,” which, like Mr. Dean’s score, takes Brahms’s music as a point of departure. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z We got two of them, both highly entertaining: a silky, sensuous Ravel “Habanera,” and a feisty Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 2. Anne-Sophie Mutter with Lambert Orkis: A night of perfection | Classical review 2013-03-04T17:52:30Z After intermission, Mr. Oramo led a clearheaded, no-nonsense, vibrant account of Brahms’s Second Symphony. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But this Brahms masterpiece, a staple of the repertory lasting 40 minutes, dominated the program. Music Review: Aspen Music Festival Takes Its Act on the Road 2014-04-17T23:18:43Z Composers after Beethoven were powerfully influenced by this technique, and not just Brahms and Mahler in their symphonies. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z It can also be profoundly serene, as in “Suspend,” a 2014 concerto for the pianist Emanuel Ax and the Los Angeles Philharmonic that dreamily meditates on Brahms. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The programme of Mozart and Brahms started with the overture to Don Giovanni, anticipating the autumn season opener in which Ticciati will conduct a concert performance of Mozart's opera. SCO/Ticciati 2010-06-21T21:46:00Z Friday’s concert blends Brahms’s viola sonatas — transcribed from the clarinet versions — with Schumann and Joel Friedman; Andrew Gonzalez is the violist, Ji the pianist. Classical Music Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The effusive, tight-knit movement from an unfinished Piano Quartet in A Minor by the 16-year-old Mahler clearly owes a debt to Brahms. Bold and exciting, all-star Chamber Music Society plays a thrilling concert 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The music explodes into life with a horn sounding a fanfare to the new century, and weaves an exhilarating journey that harks back to Brahms, yet looks forward almost to Boulez. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z We've put on very fine performances of Rhapsody in Blue and Grieg's Piano Concerto, Wagner, Brahms, and specially commissioned works by Iraqi composers. Let's hear it for the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra 2011-01-18T13:49:42Z The program also includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 and Charles Ives’s “Central Park in the Dark.” The Week in Arts: Idris Elba, Taking on War and José González 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z But he sounded in fine form as he performed songs by Brahms, expertly accompanied by Julius Drake. Music Review: At Alice Tully, 19th-Century Pop, Via Brahms 2010-04-01T21:07:00Z One must hope, on the evidence of the two Brahms programs, that the summer management invites Dohnanyi back at the earliest opportunity. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z Schumann’s Violin Sonata No. 2 proved somewhat more engaging, although the endlessly meandering work, a marked contrast to the composer’s brilliantly concise piano miniatures, is a much harder sell than the gorgeous Brahms. Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Play Brahms and Respighi 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z And on Sunday afternoon, Carnegie presented the first Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the pianist Emanuel Ax playing a program of Brahms. Music Review: Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, With Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax 2014-02-24T22:40:33Z The composer will not write a diminuendo on that long note, because Brahms, let’s say, expected a musical person to do that automatically. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z They had spent more than a week rehearsing the program, which included pieces by Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin and Valentin Silvestrov, Ukraine’s most famous living composer. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Violinists don’t get much greater than Augustin Hadelich, a beloved and regular visitor to Seattle who won a Grammy with the Seattle Symphony and will play the iconic Brahms Concerto in these concerts. 9 Seattle-area classical music performances to go to this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Next, the Brahms Violin Concerto served as a synergistic vehicle for violinist Joshua Bell, whose new CD for Sony happens to be titled “For the Love of Brahms.” Joshua Bell kicks off three-night run with Dudamel and the L.A. Phil 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z After the crystalline shapeliness of the Britten, the four movements of Brahms’ Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A minor, Op. Britten dazzles at Seattle Chamber Music Society festival 2013-07-16T19:09:15Z In the chestnut camp was Brahms’s second symphony, a staple of the Romantic canon. Review | Romantic tropes for the 21st century: the Chicago Symphony on tour 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He's a fine Brahms conductor, but he's also, rather surprisingly, a slow one. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko – review 2012-07-08T14:46:27Z But soon he and young listeners learn that those chords are key to many folk songs, as well as to great works by Beethoven, Brahms, Copland and other composers. Spare Times for Children, for Jan. 25-31 2013-01-24T22:45:09Z Other possibilities: simultaneously released films about Liszt and Chopin, Brahms and Schumann, Verdi and Wagner, Ravel and Debussy. Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Even Brahms’s dances don’t stick to a single groove. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z On Friday, Mr. Levit played much of the album’s weighty program, including works and transcriptions by Brahms, Busoni, Liszt and Schumann. Review: A Pianist’s Profound Vision of ‘Life,’ in Just 2 Hours 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Here too, there’s opportunity for discovery, for while Brahms predictably appears, so do Romantics largely forgotten. A Classical Christmas, Across the Centuries 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z He gives his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall featuring his own works as well as ones by Brahms, Berg, Schubert and Schumann, in luxurious company, alongside the eminent pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He made his New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in November 1969 playing Mozart, Brahms, Prokofiev and Janacek. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z Schubert, like Brahms, felt overwhelmed by the shadow of Beethoven. Mitsuko Uchida and Schubert Sonatas at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:08:03Z The program that Paul Lewis presented on Thursday at the 92nd Street Y may seem unadventurous at first: a Haydn sonata, three late Brahms intermezzos and Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations. Two Pianists Offer Contrasting Paths of Exploration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Pianists will tell you that some awkward passages in the Brahms Second are nearly unplayable. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z The duo made a stellar combination in two slightly older pieces, beginning with a richly interpreted, smoldering performance of the first violin sonata of Brahms. Review | At the Phillips Collection, 2 young performers make for a dynamic combination 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert led two Brahms works: the Violin Concerto, which the orchestra last performed just under a year ago, and the Fourth Symphony, which it played in April. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z Mr. Suk also made several recordings with Mr. Katchen, most notably an acclaimed traversal of the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano. Josef Suk, Czech Violinist, Dies at 81 2011-07-08T14:36:02Z The violist Jonah Sirota of the Chiara String Quartet, which recently released the complete Brahms quartets, noted that “icons of the standard repertory bring baggage.” Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z That is why the finale of her residency on Sunday at Avery Fisher Hall — a recital of Debussy, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Sarasate, with the nimble, subtle pianist Lambert Orkis — was such a letdown. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z This may be the first recital program in history to balance the three Bs — Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — with 13 short new pieces. Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z The turbulent lyricism of the Brahms was immaculately judged and they beautifully negotiated its closely wrought dialogues. Chaushian/Wass – review 2013-01-09T18:27:18Z Massive amounts of Bach! — and the musical mountain he's climbing this year is titled "Mostly Brahms." UW piano prof to perform a bundle of Brahms 2011-02-08T00:50:10Z With few exceptions, he concentrated as a performer on the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. Claude Frank, Pianist Admired for Performances of Beethoven, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Part Three, far lengthier than the rest of the concert, was another bout with the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, which the LA Phil performed only three weeks ago. A beautiful premiere and some glorious Mahler from L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Intimations of Bach and Beethoven emerge, alongside hints of the Brahms to come. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z It features 12 songs, including classics like "You Are My Sunshine" and "Brahms Lullaby." New dad Nick Lachey to release a lullaby album 2013-02-26T17:01:05Z The first, in E flat, was dedicated to Brahms, though musically it owes much more to Mendelssohn and Schumann, without ever matching either composer or even Bruch's own violin concerto. Bruch: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 2010-04-15T21:50:00Z Kadota, 43, who is Japanese American, said she felt “self-conscious and slightly apologetic” during a recent performance of a Brahms string quintet, because four of the five players were women of Asian descent. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Johannes Brahms fell short of the achievements of Schubert and Schumann in the Lieder genre. Review | Roderick Williams attempts chivalrous rescue of Brahms’s ‘Magelone’ songs at Phillips Collection 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z As a child in Georgia, Khatia Buniatishvili, 30, was told that music like this Brahms rhapsody was for men, not women. Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z You wouldn't always want Brahms like this, but it's still worthwhile. Brahms; Debussy; Shostakovich: Cello Sonatas, etc – review 2012-11-29T22:40:01Z The night before they had been two thirds of the solo team in the Beethoven Triple Concerto; here it was the Brahms Double, and the familiarity between players brought nothing but benefits. Prom 6: OPRF/Chung ? review 2011-07-20T09:48:43Z This season the society is centering its theme of “musical inheritance” around Brahms, of whom Zemlinsky was a protégé. Music Review: The Folkways That Led to Dvorak and Bartok 2010-10-20T21:18:00Z In the Brahms Second Symphony performance, he seemed to want to show us that he is a probing, mature musician as well. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z Lieberman and the players introduced the Brahms with a demonstration of how certain passages were transformed from quartet to string orchestra — a fascinating musical exercise to hear. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z Most of the “Magelone” songs do not sound much like Brahms, either. Review | Roderick Williams attempts chivalrous rescue of Brahms’s ‘Magelone’ songs at Phillips Collection 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Poetry seems tinned and trebly in digital formats, like Brahms’s Requiem played through smartphone speakers. ‘Selected Poems,’ by Mark Ford, Covers a Career 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Also on the bill: works by Northwest composers Gloria Swisher and Nathan Johnson, and a German chap you may know, Brahms. 15 top entertainment picks for March 11-17 in Seattle 2012-03-07T23:14:03Z Muti's replacement was gracious enough to take up two of the three works Muti was planning to conduct, including Stravinsky's Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" and the Brahms concerto. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z Mr. Rose, in his muscular, often explosive readings, seemed intent on reconciling them by playing Brahms with a weight and volume more typically lavished on Liszt’s showpieces. Music Review: Brahms in a New Light, Resembling the Weightier Liszt 2011-07-18T22:08:46Z He is playing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and his sonatas for violin and keyboard, a Brahms chamber concert and the violin concertos of Berg, Beethoven and Dvorak. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z Well into the magnificent fugue that ends the Brahms variations, a few lines before the composer begins repeating the powerful pedal point that will build tension to the end, Brahms seems to get stuck. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress This program, one of the most eclectic on the Philharmonic’s calendar, brings two pieces of Ligeti’s into dialogue with Brahms’s Serenade No. 1 and a piano concerto by the living modernist Elena Firsova. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Nor has he shied away from making dance to “important” classical music, including compositions by Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and Mozart, composers often considered too monumental for dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z She’ll perform classic arias, and the orchestra will close the night with Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. 5 ways to enjoy classical music in the Seattle area, April 26-27 2014-04-24T20:30:44Z The Seattle Symphony’s current program, pairing the Brahms Violin Concerto with Bartok’s “Concerto for Orchestra,” drew a large and appreciative audience that also was eager to check out the merits of soloist Alexander Velinzon. Solos step up in Symphony’s take on two masterpieces 2014-04-26T00:46:53Z It’s not “Brahms’ Fifth Symphony,” as Schoenberg once joked; it is blown-up chamber music with fewer working parts than one would find in, say, a real symphony. Brahms played brilliantly, with an L.A. back story to boot: Christoph Eschenbach at Disney Hall 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z The superb violinist Augustin Hadelich, for several years a favorite with Seattle classical fans, gave a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto that will linger long in the memory. Review: Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s Halloween night concert with Seattle Symphony was all treats, no tricks 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z On Tuesday evening, the ensemble offers works by Beethoven, Brahms and George Tsontakis. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z There were splendid singers and a guitarist, and pianist Carlos Cesar Rodriguez, the work’s music director, fully transformed the atmosphere with a fluid but light touch, in selections from Brahms and Liszt. The intimacy of dance, brought even closer 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z His perfectly satisfying Brahms is good enough for the needs of modern audiences and orchestras for a routine night at the symphony. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z There are moments where Brahms pushes to the edge. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Yoon said she suggested performing the Brahms quartets from memory as a means to tap more fully into the right half of the brain. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z The National Philharmonic did not even begin the Brahms “German Requiem” until 9:30 on Saturday evening. Review | National Philharmonic soloists boost an otherwise delayed, derivative event 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Also on the program are Haydn’s ebullient Symphony No. 90 in C and, linking the two, Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:20:26Z The Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 pushes the envelope of that medium — four movements instead of the usual three, and a wider than usual emotional range. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Kent Nagano leads his Canadian forces in a program that’s notable mainly for a rare appearance by Maxim Vengerov, the commanding violinist, for the Brahms concerto. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z And so, after seven cathartic movements of Brahms' choral masterpiece — adapted from Martin Luther's version of the Bible, with words more consoling than perhaps any other requiem in the canon — the audience stood in silence. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z Beethoven, like Janacek, Mozart, Brahms, and Dvorak, would surely be cheering as well. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T12:52:00Z You might not like Wit's approach if you like your Brahms volatile. Brahms: Choral Music ? review 2012-02-10T15:34:41Z Purcell cleverly prefaces his Haydn, and Dowland his Schumann, and if his Brahms Fourth is misguided, his Beethoven Ninth is bracingly straightforward. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z But the personality of the Hollywood players is irresistible, and Stokowski's startlingly succulent arrangements of a Brahms Hungarian dance and Strauss waltzes must be heard to be believed. Two CD sets unearth thrilling rare gems from Hollywood Bowl Symphony 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z So after the Schumann I thought, Let’s try the Brahms. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Late Brahms, rich and strange, made up the second half of the concert. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Thomas Quasthoff?s Existential Issues 2010-05-06T20:58:00Z On Saturday and Sunday, the Silk Road Ensemble and Brooklyn Rider violinist Johnny Gandelsman pairs up with the pianist Ethan Iverson — a fascinating team for all three of Brahms’s Violin Sonatas. Classical Music Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z "Brahms' rendition is closer to the original violin version. He almost doesn't add anything to the original score." Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z You could, if you wished, play a game of free association to trace the maestro's Brahms connection back to the source. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z Dausgaard finally received a visa and returned to Benaroya Hall in Seattle in November to great fanfare, for a program of Beethoven and Brahms. Seattle Maestro Resigns by Email and Says He Felt ‘Not Safe’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The final chord of the Brahms is a case in point. An earthquake in C major: Daniel Barenboim and the Berliners 2010-05-03T14:50:00Z Not heard in public since 1912, it's a hefty work in the late-romantic tradition, though less Brahms than Liszt, with a bit of Tchaikovsky thrown in. BBCCO/Sutherland 2010-05-31T21:30:00Z At this stage – Strauss was just 21 when he wrote it – the influences on his music of both Brahms and Liszt remain undigested. Prom 56: BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-08-28T14:44:08Z The bulk of the program was devoted to the two sonatas for cello and piano by Brahms, bedrock repertory pieces completed roughly 21 years apart: the first in 1865, its successor in 1886. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z There was more Brahms – later songs, tinged by pessimism and despair, and delivered with almost shocking expressionism. Boesch/Martineau ? review 2011-04-04T21:00:01Z In his Brahms, he touched on both those qualities. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z Mr. Spano drew a glowing, spacious performance of this Brahms masterwork from the orchestra, marking a great return visit for both him and this essential ensemble. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z “Autumnal” is the word most often used in association with Brahms’s viola sonatas. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Richard Pittsinger, a chorister in the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, was scheduled to sing the soprano solo in Brahms’s “German Requiem” alongside his father, the baritone David Pittsinger, on Thursday evening. Music in Review: Music in Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys 2012-11-11T23:08:21Z Brahms and Beethoven and Tchaikovsky are all great. At 100, orchestra has a midlife crisis 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Mr. van Zweden will conduct plenty of old favorites, including Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and works by Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich. The New York Philharmonic’s Fresh Start: A Season Spent at Home 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Among Mr. Frost’s latest discs is a recording of the Brahms works he remembers as a youngster hearing his father play: the Clarinet Quintet and the Clarinet Trio. The Swedish Clarinetist Martin Frost Wants to Move Beyond Traditional Concert Formats 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z "Brahms Afoot," performed to live music by Seattle's new Inverse Opera, will debut at "Project 5," SDP's latest showcase. Local dancer Ezra Dickinson: What can't he do? 2012-01-19T20:45:04Z Brahms’ piano transcription was returned to a Bachian harpsichord but tuned a little differently, so that it sounds closer to a Baroque violin yet also with a very distant flavor of Lou Harrison’s California. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z What an opening Brahms crafted for this concerto, with timpani roaring and the rest of the orchestra declaiming abrupt, emphatic shouts of confidence. FSO trades timidity for vigor after intermission 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The perennial jeopardy of Brahms without an overarching stance is dullness and stodge — there was no sign of that here. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Brahms, say, premieres his Second Symphony in Vienna in 1877 and less than a year later, the New York Philharmonic plays it in New York. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z With tempos added elastically, organically related to structure in the Bülow-Furtwängler-Karajan tradition, the unlikely drama of Brahms’s symphony was freshly rousing. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Both recitals concluded with a Brahms quintet, the first concert with the later of his two string quintets and the second with the exhilarating F minor piano quintet. Power/Owen/Takács Quartet – review 2013-02-24T17:15:01Z Yefim Bronfman, the burly soloist in the Brahms, is one of the few pianists who can make this bruising concerto seem like child’s play. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The “name” category lists only movements, not composers or pieces; in the “album” section, the Philharmonic listings are vague, like “Romantic Schoenberg and Brahms.” Digital and Direct Sales Now Bring Orchestras to Fans 2010-04-02T20:56:00Z A winter festival, in February and March, explores Beethoven’s influence on Brahms. Chamber Music?s Busy Power Couple 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Monday evening’s program offers the New York premiere of a work by the Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason; Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, with the young virtuoso Yuja Wang; and Brahms’s Second Symphony. | Classical: Left Coast, Meet Right Coast 2014-03-15T16:00:09Z That lush approach also helps connect his Schoenberg with his interpretation of Brahms’s Op. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z He conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in three Brahms concerts; the two I heard, including the “German Requiem,” were predictably fine. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z The Haydn Variations were a kind of test run for Brahms as he paved the way toward staking his claim as a symphonist in the Beethoven tradition. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in a deeply satisfying Brahms program 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The 1960 recording of the Brahms, the liner notes state, is taken from the last of four performances. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z It starts in satanic vein but opens into tender lyricism, another Brahms trait. Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Vol 2 – review 2013-03-31T00:05:41Z “It’s not like singing songs, it’s like being an instrument, like a viola,” he said of singing Brahms, despite having produced a fine recording of “Die Schöne Magelone.” 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Brahms leaned more toward death, in “less troubled” texts; this composer saw death as Heine’s “cool night” as early as 1885, 11 years before his biblical contemplations of the subject in “Four Serious Songs.” Review: Two Masters Unite in a Meeting of Musical Minds 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z In the Brahms, too, the dominance of the string section was hard to ignore. Budapest Festival O/Fischer – review 2013-04-28T13:17:18Z Watch video from the conducting course at tiny.cc/haitink Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Brahms at the Proms on 18 August. A masterclass with Bernard Haitink 2011-08-11T21:30:03Z So there was a sprightly rather than grandly ceremonial account of the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger to begin, and an urgent and always purposeful one of Brahms's First Symphony, completing the season's Brahms cycle. Prom 51: BBCSO/Dausgaard ? review 2011-08-23T10:15:20Z He made a series of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms recordings that mixed a modern, clear-eyed freshness with a clear-eared regard for classical tradition. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z But Brahms’s profoundly touching “A German Requiem” kept coming around this year in excellent performances, each an occasion unto itself. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The programme comprised music by Mendelssohn, Dvorák and Brahms – all promoted by the RPS in their lifetimes. Philharmonia/Sokhiev – review 2013-01-27T17:26:00Z We made music together for 25 years and I learned so much from him – he opened my eyes and ears to Brahms, Liszt, and especially Wolf. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z Mr. Bronfman brought commanding pianism and acute insight to his vigorous, lucid account of the Brahms concerto. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z However, there were so many of them that they ended up feeling just as long; as with the movements of the Brahms, the contrasts were blurred. Review | Lithe Brahms in an unexpected debut 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z |
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