All you need is Brahms
"Brahms was not a Dortmunder - a pity really" (Jordan de Souza). Because he would have felt at home here, strolling through the Westpark, perhaps afterwards for a pilsner at the Alter Markt, attentive but never showy and always down to earth. His music is exactly the same: Brahms did not write for the quick effect. His four symphonies are the best example of this: not a collection of pretty ideas, but a whole cosmos of power, warmth, resistance, consolation and that very special beauty that never becomes decorative.