Beispiel "Feinsliebchen": Die Vorlage selbst war bereits Volksgut, ehe Johannes Brahms sie in die Finger bekam und zum Kunstlied veredelte. Aber so groß Brahms’ Faible für das Sammeln von Volksliedern ...

Scott Yoo journeys across Germany to find a window into Brahms’ inner life. Johannes Brahms was a quiet, private person, but he lived a full life, bearing a responsibility he didn’t want, a woman he ...

“Evolve or die” is good advice for businesses, organisms and TV shows, whether it means a tweak or a transformation. After six seasons, the reliable classical-music series “Now Hear This” was probably ...

Johannes Moser and Scott Yoo perform Brahms' Double Concerto, 1st mvt. Johannes Moser and Scott Yoo perform Brahms' Double Concerto, 1st movement. So Brahms came here to Baden-Baden, he wrote a few ...

The San Diego Symphony’s Brahms Festival will be special in several ways. It’s the first festival the symphony has presented since before the pandemic shutdown, and the first to be held in the ...

Brahms’s Tragic Overture leaps to life while there is much interest in a careful reading of the composer’s First Symphony in this new recording from the Berlin Philharmonic with their chief conductor ...

“The level of the orchestras in the world—especially in the ’70s and ’80s—has gone up everywhere,” the conductor Riccardo Muti claimed in 2017. Anyone familiar with old recordings—especially of live ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, Brahms holds back the tears, which makes it heartbreaking. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, ...

In recordings taken from live performances, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the RCO in taut and purposeful readings Many years before he severed his connections with the period-instrumental ensembles and ...

Ferenc Sánta wurde am 2. März 1945 in Kaposvár geboren. Er lernte an der dortigen Musikschule, studierte an der Musikakademie Pécs und ab 1963 an der Franz-Liszt-Musikakademie in Budapest. 1969 ...