Asher Ian Armstrong, pianoEmily Kruspe, violinIf the first movement is dream-like and lush, the second is the opposite. A sonata form, it contains a huge de...

"In the early music of Brahms, there are passages of an overwhelming tenderness, such as could only be expressed by one who was deprived of tenderness." -Theodor Adorno The 16 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9 is an almost unique work in Brahms's output.

The Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs) were Brahms's Op. 121, but one last work remained to be written, after Clara's death: the Eleven Chorale Prelude...

Lowell Liebermann-Gargoyles, Op. 29, I: Presto American composer Lowell Liebermann has made a name for himself in many traditional genres of Western Classical Music-the Concerto, the Sonata, the Symphony, etc. I have seen him oft derided for writing of "movie music"-although this is for many people not necessarily a bad thing (and the complexity one encounters in his music far surpasses the most simplistic cinema scores).