Brahms and Wagner were both enchanted by the Faust legend, but each only composed one overture on the subject. The Brahms entry, that we now know as the “Tragic” — Brahms let his publisher pick the ...

Right away, Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Anna Handler crisp, powerful conducting style—clearly similar to ...

"The Tragic Overture" by Brahms has been associated with Goethe's Faust, but there's little evidence to support that theory. This work is the dark twin of Brahms' more famous work, the "Academic ...

Opening the orchestra’s 2023-24 classical series, and starting his own second season as music director, Robert Spano conducted Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture and First Symphony and the ...

A good, steady, spacious account of the Academic Festival Overture precedes the Violin Concerto, and this is recorded in very good sound which has plenty of clarity, impact and warmth. When the ...

To close the first half of the program, the conductor turned to Brahms’ Overture, making the opening crisp and electric, and keeping the music taut throughout the dramatic, full-orchestra passages.

Johannes Brahms was one of the few composers who had the privilege of living to experience the impact his music had on the world. Throughout the course of his life, he garnered one prestigious ...

But after the Brahms overture Kuan had the orchestra play several minutes of the third movement of Mahler’s fourth symphony prior to performing the Strauss.

The Brahms overture and Strauss tone poem had sweep, energy and emotional weight but little mystery, darkness or soul-baring. On the other hand, the radiant glow of the ensemble in the overture ...

His finely paced account of Brahms's Tragic Overture that opened the first concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, certainly reminded one that this least played of the composer's major orchestral ...