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 ...

The exciting new musical ensemble, the Santa Barbara Chamber Players, concludes its second season with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6 in the First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St.

Brahms was careful not to leave much if any evidence of his compositional struggles, thus there’s no score of the original nonet version of his First Serenade. Here, the Linos Ensemble employ a ...