Michael Musgrave presents a contemporary view of Brahms 150 years after his birth, seeing him not simply as the `conservative' figure so often stressed in the past, but as one who creatively reinterpreted a wider range of historical elements than any composer of his time. Brahms absorbed his studies directly into his music-making and composition and in so doing helped to evolve not merely a personal language which was regarded as progressive and sometimes difficult by a range of contemporaries a...

•  Part One:
•  1 An Introduction to Brahms and his Early Music.
•  Part Two
•  The Second Period:
•  2 Songs and Piano Music
•  3 Choral Music
•  4 Chamber Music
•  5 Orchestral Music.
•  Part Three
•  The Third Period:
•  6 Songs and Piano Music
•  7 Choral Music
•  8 Chamber Music
•  9 Orchestral Music
•  Part Four:
•  10 The Final Period