A serenade is supposed to be a charming diversion, purely for entertainment. So when Brahms tried to make his Serenade No. 1 into a symphony, it just didn't have the oomph a symphony required. Here it ...
Brahms was careful not to leave much if any evidence of his compositional struggles, thus there’s no score of the original nonet version of his First Serenade. Here, the Linos Ensemble employ a ...
A burly, bearded man with an impatient expression and, often, a cigar between his fingers: That’s the image of 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms that persists in popular culture. But he was ...