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A little Brahms is thrown in presumably because who doesn’t love Brahms?

I remember the night on Skid Row when, before falling asleep, he grabbed two sticks on which he had written the names Beethoven and Brahms.

His latest solo recording, released in November, contains Brahms’ First Piano Sonata, Liszt arrangements of Schubert songs and Schubert’s “Wanderer Fantasy.”

During Strauss’ own lifetime the musical world was split between Wagner heralding a music of the future and the supposed stuffiness of traditional Brahms.

In no work does Schoenberg embrace the spirits of Brahms and Wagner more radiantly than in a “Gurrelieder.”