BRAHMS & BRUCKNER – With heart and soul

Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – contemporaries, compositional geniuses, and yet polar opposites. Both composers came from the same generation, yet their conceptions of music could hardly have been more different. While Brahms conceived of music as a formally defined absolute, as an expression of personal, primal feeling – detached from any romanticism – Bruckner turned to a predominantly transcendent dimension: for him, music was a medium of...