Brahms: Rhythms That Fight (That´s The Secret)
(ArtsJournal)

Polyrhythms run through Brahms´s music like an obsessive-compulsive streak. You don´t have to be musically literate to know the bumpy feel of a cross-rhythm. Two-against-three can be a parent strolling hand in hand with a skipping child. Triplets on top of eighth notes are like a slow canter next to a trot: The two horses might […]