The series returns with a season that covers the great Romantic composer as well as subjects outside the traditional ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

For more than three decades, the Sonoma Bach Choir has been synonymous with the High Baroque. This season, however, the ensemble has ventured far beyond those roots, spanning centuries of classical ...

“These pieces have some kind of sibling connection. They are born of the same muse.” That’s what noted violinist Gil Shaham said recently about the violin concertos by Beethoven and Brahms, works he ...

Now the Westside resident is sharing his love of music with “Radiohead x Brahms,” a clash of the canonical work of Brahms and the depth of heady alt-rockers Radiohead. He will present this hybrid show ...

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

NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...

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

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

For much of his life, Steve Hackman has been torn between two worlds. He attended school to study classical music, and out of his home base of Los Angeles works as a conductor as well as a composer, ...