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 ...

Here are DSO music director Leonard Slatkin's favorite moments in Brahms orchestral music. • "In the Third Moveent of the Second Symphony, there is a three-bar phrase, about a minute before the end of ...