Particularly when it comes to the Romantic era of the arts, literature and music, it’s easy to consider yesteryear through nostalgia’s amber glass and evoke a kinder, gentler era of serene and genteel ...

One of the earliest orchestral compositions by Johannes Brahms is his Serenade No. 2, composed at the age of 26. As there are no violins in the score, the strings have a darker and heavier sound, but ...