In music theory, a coda is generally understood as an appendage or an epilogue to a musical structure. This is perhaps the reason that, as Joseph Kerman writes, '[m]usical analysts who deal with ...

Emanuel Gruber, a cello and chamber music professor in East Carolina University’s School of Music, has released a new recording of Johannes Brahms’ cello sonatas with pianist Arnon Erez. Gruber said ...

The 2025 version of SummerFest, La Jolla Music Society’s ambitious and sprawling summer festival, is taking interesting interdisciplinary chances: “Tasting Notes,” an edible mashup of food and music ...

Brahms and Tchaikovsky made an effort to be civil to each other when the German and Russian composers met, and that was impressive. In an infamous review, Edward Hanslick, the most powerful critic in ...

In Brahms Analogue, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk capture the magic of a bygone era in Brahms' Cello Sonatas, recorded entirely using analogue technology. Using tape ...

There is good reason to couple Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) in the same concert. The older German composer and his wife Clara were mentors to the young upstart, and ...

“Live recording” can mean many things, from a warts ’n’ all eavesdropping on a concert performance any time in the last century, to a highly-produced experience, mixed down and edited together from ...

German pianist Markus Groh is better known in Europe than in the US, but his name is gaining some momentum. We hear him play a Beethoven Piano Sonata in New York in a few minutes. First, a little ...

What are the extras that cause Brahms's cello music to need a second CD? In addition to the two sonatas, Jonathan Aasgaard, principal cellist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, offers ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s late autumn — viola time. The viola should perhaps be the instrument of summer. Its tone suggests sumptuous ...