performed by Cecil Aronowitz and the Amadeus Quartet, or as below: You have never before heard such a beautiful work from me. Brahms, writing of his quintet (cover image by Freddie Marriage) Brahms’s first string quintet, with an additional viola, … Continue reading Brahms String Quintet no. 1 in F, op. 88
performed by Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough, or below by Natalia Gutman and Viacheslav Poprugin I am both spiritually and bodily unwell and decide every other day not to compose another note, because I satisfy myself less and less. Grieg, … Continue reading Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor, op. 36
So… kind of finally, we get around to this guy. The cover image for this article is a far less common (to me…?) image of the composer, not the one below that everyone’s used to seeing: Anyway, he’s outstandingly famous now … Continue reading Influential People: Igor Stravinsky
