In praise of … Brahms | Editorial

Brahms's music still thrives thanks to his drive to express the most radical ideas within strictly established disciplinesAimez-vous Brahms? Answers to Françoise Sagan's question are more equivocal than they once were. Brahms's music is still greatly venerated and regularly played – by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Bernard Haitink at the Proms tonight and tomorrow, for ex–ample. Loving the works of Brahms, though, seems a different matter. Other composers – like Mozart and Mahler ...

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