For a fully rounded musical portrait of the young Brahms, you could do worse than to pair his First Piano Concerto with the Serenade No...That's what Michael Tilson Thomas did in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, in the second installment of ...
Everything else — the emotions, the supposed story line of a given piece — is your own projection onto the music. Well, if you actually believed that going into Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday, you probably would have abandoned the theory by ...