Particularly when it comes to the Romantic era of the arts, literature and music, it’s easy to consider yesteryear through nostalgia’s amber glass and evoke a kinder, gentler era of serene and genteel ...

One of the earliest orchestral compositions by Johannes Brahms is his Serenade No. 2, composed at the age of 26. As there are no violins in the score, the strings have a darker and heavier sound, but ...

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from ...

Serenade No. 1 Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra Augustin Dumay, Director, Violin Johannes Brahms, Composer Romances Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Augustin Dumay, Director, Violin Kansai Philharmonic ...

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 ...

Jorge Rotter’s chamber remake of the D major Serenade was outshone by new works by Hannes Seidl and Michael Quell As we usually hear it today, Brahms’s D major Serenade was his first orchestral work, ...

Variations on a Theme by Haydn, 'St Antoni Chorale Johannes Brahms, Composer Robin Ticciati, Conductor Bamberger Symphoniker Serenade No. 1 Robin Ticciati, Conductor Bamberger Symphoniker Johannes ...

Do you like the opening of Brahms’s Third Symphony to be played with gutsy thrust and blaze and bite? If so, there’s a fair chance that you may find this new account by Iván Fischer and his Budapest ...

“Gemütlich” translates as “genial” in the German-English dictionary. That is how Brahms’s two Serenades usually feel in performance, but conductor Riccardo Chailly brings to them his characteristic ...