Word: brahmses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beethoven also made the top of our charts here in Honolulu. A year ago, we asked our subscribers which composers they wanted to hear. The top five were Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Bach and Tchaikovsky. Hardly mentioned were Berlioz, Ives and Bruckner. When faced with our current economic realities, an orchestra...
Excessive reliance on war horses is hardly limited to the summer. At the turn of the century, European and American orchestras drew on the Beethoven symphonies, the Tchaikovsky concertos and the orchestral music of Brahms to form the foundation of their regular concert seasons. The problem is, they still do...
The important beginnings in musical history are often easy to identify: the birth of the romantic symphony with Beethoven's Eroica, for example, or the founding of German Romantic opera in Weber's Der Freischütz, or the full flowering of the twelve-tone system with Schoenberg...
Not that Die Soldaten lacks arresting moments. The brutal prelude mixes the Dies irae with an orchestral primal scream, propelled by a relentless pounding of timpani that recalls the opening of the Brahms First Symphony. Along the way, several of the ensembles are strikingly crafted, such as a dramatically dilatory...
The young writer isolated here was hardly a flaming rebel. His favorite form of truancy as a boy was listening to his half-Brazilian mother play the piano and sing Brahms. Papa was a senator of the Baltic seaport town of Lübeck and a prosperous grain merchant: the...