WHEN musical criticism tries to explain or interpret the inner meaning, what may be called the emotional gist of music, it exposes itself to grave dangers. In the first place, it easily degenerates ...

The Aiken Symphony brings its 11th season to a close with music by the Romantic masters, Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto and ...

Johannes Brahms and the Schumanns - Robert, and his wife, Clara - were the musical stars of their era. As composers and performers, they helped to define the German Romantic movement in the mid-1800s.

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 ...

Classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. The complete Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, performed by violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine with the La Crosse ...

The series returns with a season that covers the great Romantic composer as well as subjects outside the traditional classical canon, from Scott Joplin to the music of Iceland.

Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti concert and a release from the Berlin Philharmonic are among our selections. In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words ...