“A German Requiem” by Brahms without an orchestra and massive choir? You read that right. The award-winning vocal ensemble Bella Voce, under the baton of its artistic director Andrew Lewis, is ...

WHAT was Brahms’s reputation thirty to thirty-five years ago? A strange reputation. At any rate, a not very favorable one. Serious but boring music. This was almost the unanimous opinion of the ...

For the past several Decembers, pianist Nada Loutfi has presented a concert as part of her Classical Hour series imbued with special meaning. For last year’s concert, she chose Claude Debussy “Noël ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...