Brahms and Wagner were both enchanted by the Faust legend, but each only composed one overture on the subject. The Brahms entry, that we now know as the “Tragic” — Brahms let his publisher pick the ...
A good, steady, spacious account of the Academic Festival Overture precedes the Violin Concerto, and this is recorded in very good sound which has plenty of clarity, impact and warmth. When the ...
"The Tragic Overture" by Brahms has been associated with Goethe's Faust, but there's little evidence to support that theory. This work is the dark twin of Brahms' more famous work, the "Academic ...
A cellist in the Stanford Symphony Orchestra focuses intently during Brahms’ “Academic Overture” at Bing Concert Hall. Photo by Brian Leahy. This past Saturday, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra (SSO) ...
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra continued its 2014-2015 Masterworks Series in the Belding Theater, at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, with a program of contrasts. The evening began with a ...
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They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...
Ecstatic and dramatic. Familiar and new. Comforting. Challenging. These are just a few ways to describe music the North Carolina Symphony will feature during its Wilmington concert on Tuesday at Cape ...
Sir Simon Rattle's returns to these shores to conduct the period-instrument line-up of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment seem to be turning into major events, to judge from the packed houses ...
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