Two period-influenced discs help show why there could never be such a thing as too many Brahms recordings. Brahms: Symphony No. 1, etc. Monteverdi Choir; Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John ...

For the past few seasons, the Brahms concerto has become a semiyearly event at the ASO. Concertmaster David Coucheron tackled the famously difficult composition in 2016 to great success, and the ...

SHORT of changing his name, there is little Roberto Abbado can do to avoid being compared with his famous uncle, Claudio. Yet temperamentally and technically, his conducting is quite distinct.

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When Kian Soltani was last in Naples, it was 2015 and he was among the Mutter Virtuosi, an ensemble of students performing Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" with violin star Anne-Sophie Mutter. Friday night ...

It’s mainly for his dynamic Beethoven and carefully shaded Schubert that Alfred Brendel has come to be one of the most esteemed pianists of our day. The music of Johannes Brahms, while it grew from ...

According to my music-theorist informant, by the time orchestral players nab positions with a big-name ensemble, they ought to have memorized the orchestral works of the following composers: 1) Mozart ...

Brahms was so intimidated by the achievement of Beethoven as a symphonist that he held off on the composition of his own First Symphony until quite late in his career. But by then he had already ...

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