With the exception of the well known F major work Op 96, often known as the American Quartet, these are the last four string quartets that Dvorák completed – the E flat Op 51 and C major Op 61 in 1879 ...

There is an irresistible sweep here to the opening movement of the C minor Quartet Op 51 no 1. For all its technical accomplishment and ever increasing musical authority the Belcea is still a young ...

Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

"Definitive" is a dangerous word to use about any performance, especially when the work in question is the rich and repeatedly recorded Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Brahms. But this eloquent, expansive and ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. This useful pairing finds Brahms at his most autumnal, the entire quartet unfolding at moderate speeds ...

'These are not comfortable performances’, Rob Cowan wrote in his review of the Zehetmair Quartet’s 2003 Gramophone Award-winning album of Schumann string quartets. And Rob’s words ring true for the ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

Piers Burton Page provides a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Brahms' String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 ...

Seven Last Words Henschel Quartet Susanne Kelling, Singer, Soprano Joseph Haydn, Composer The upshot will, I suspect, be touching or mildly irritating, according to taste. While they could phrase and ...