Every writing student has at some point been urged by an instructor to "write what you know." A. Manette Ansay was apparently listening. The Michigan-born author of eight books, including a 1999 Oprah ...

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After tackling the sonatas for violin and piano of Bach, Busoni and Beethoven in 2017 – a “thoughtfully determined and subtly interconnected programme” according to Stradmagazine –, the duo of Yuuko ...

Northern Sinfonia’s main theme of the 2012-13 season is the ‘Romantic Symphony’, featuring the complete cycles of Brahms and Schumann symphonies. Here, music director Thomas Zehetmair provides a ...

The first Brahms sonata recorded by Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov on period instruments made a big impression: here are the other two wonderful sonatas, with companion pieces. We often hear ...

BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leads works by two closely associated composers, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, in the first of three programs in "Pathways of Romanticism," the final series of ...

Johannes Brahms and the Schumanns - Robert, and his wife, Clara - were the musical stars of their era. As composers and performers, they helped to define the German Romantic movement in the mid-1800s.