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"Musical people, as a rule, have not as yet got "educated" by the "music of the future" up to the point where they may enjoy passage after passage bereft of all tonality by meandering through doors of modulation, around corners of accidentals, and through mazes of chromatics that lead nowhere in particular unless it be to the ream of giddiness. They long occasionally to come out into the sunlight or to emerge upon some scene where recognizable objects may be viewed, grouped or marshaled somewhat according to nature and the understood laws of unity and symmetry. There is so much of this ultra-modern kind of writing in the Brahms Serenade, op.11, that, with its inordinate length, its total effect is wearisome. The general treatment in this Serenade is after Brahms usual fashion, abstruse, intellectual. The work, on a first hearing at least, is largely unintelligible." (Boston Daily Advertiser, October 31, 1882) page auto updates every 45 seconds. refresh for new review.
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