It was a love triangle that would change music history: the great and tortured Robert Schumann; his virtuoso wife, Clara; and a young, unknown Johannes Brahms. They forged a friendship in 1853, the ...
Nobody does it like Brahms, and the later the better. Once he gets past opus 110, the great man goes beyond the need to please or explain. The music flows with an unarguable authority, a gravity that ...