performed by the Amadeus quartet with Cecil Aronowitz and William Pleeth, or below by the Alberni Quartet with Roger Best and Moray Welsh (cover image by Brooke Lark) If you have, like I used to have, any doubt that where … Continue reading Brahms String Sextet in G, op. 36
performed by the Quartetto Italiano and Maurizio Pollini, or below by the Amadeus Quartet with Christoph Eschenbach (cover image by Vidar Nordli Mathisen) Have you ever had that experience of meeting (well, more like being in the presence of) someone … Continue reading Brahms Piano Quintet in Fm, op. 34
performed by the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra under Douglas Bostock (in what is apparently a world premiere recording), or in a slightly garbly recording below from The Ulster Orchestra under Kenneth Alwyn (Please let’s be clear here. There are two symphonies … Continue reading William Sterndale Bennett: Symphony in Gm, op. 43
performed (again) by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Igor Golovschin I have to say with this symphony that, while I don’t care much for the man who wrote it (after preparing this week’s article on him), of the first … Continue reading Mily Balakirev: Symphony no. 1 in C major,
Fugue for Thought 