WHEN musical criticism tries to explain or interpret the inner meaning, what may be called the emotional gist of music, it exposes itself to grave dangers. In the first place, it easily degenerates ...

Johannes Brahms fell short of the achievements of Schubert and Schumann in the Lieder genre. His one halfhearted attempt at a song cycle, the “Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone,” is a noteworthy failure ...

In Now Hear This Season 7, Scott Yoo travels across Germany to unlock a window into the inner world of Johannes Brahms. Use ...

The title for this album might suggest a mixed recital, picking and choosing songs along the theme from across Brahms’s song output. It’s perhaps a measure of quite how heavily the themes of loss and ...

On Sunday afternoon, Elina Garanca, the Latvian mezzo-soprano, gave a recital in Carnegie Hall. She began with Brahms—indeed, the first half of the program was all-Brahms, comprising fourteen songs. I ...

Two great artists unite for what promises to be a dazzling, unforgettable evening of music. Evgeny Kissin’s musicality, the depth and poetic quality of his interpretations, and his extraordinary ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

(9) Lieder Graham Johnson, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor (4) Lieder, Movements: No. 1, Die Kränze (wds. Daumer) Graham Johnson, Piano Johannes ...

Lewis Furey is sitting at the piano in the Petit Outremont, an intimate 115-capacity room just beside the main Théâtre Outremont. He’s singing and tickling the ivories on Diamonds, his adaptation of ...

The series returns with a season that covers the great Romantic composer as well as subjects outside the traditional ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page The pianist Paul Lewis picks his favorite page of Brahms’s late solos, a work of “abject anguish.” By David Allen The British pianist ...

LENOX -- Accustomed to piloting himself to his concerts around Europe, Gerhard Oppitz is engaged in a solo flight of a different kind at Tanglewood. The German pianist will play Mozart’s Piano ...