This past weekend’s concert program with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented works by three well known Viennese masters: Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Arnold Schoenberg. The first ...

Johannes Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn are a brilliant example of how to write a set of variations. The Avanti Orchestra plays them in concert at the Porvoo Art Factory in Helsinki, Finland, ...

(Toscanini, NBC Symphony; RCA Victrola VIC-6400). If anything, Brahms benefits even more than Beethoven from a Toscanini tightening-up. This is a four-record album.