“A German Requiem” by Brahms without an orchestra and massive choir? You read that right. The award-winning vocal ensemble Bella Voce, under the baton of its artistic director Andrew Lewis, is ...
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 ...
WHAT was Brahms’s reputation thirty to thirty-five years ago? A strange reputation. At any rate, a not very favorable one. Serious but boring music. This was almost the unanimous opinion of the ...