Mozart’s String Quintets have been called his finest chamber music. No. 4 in g-minor is dark and dramatic, full of “inconsolable sorrow,” as Tchaikovsky said, until the music finally breaks out of the ...

Between his 4th and 5th symphonies, Tchaikovsky composed his unnumbered "Manfred Symphony" in 1885. The Symphony was inspired by the 1817 Lord Byron dramatic poem "Manfred" in which the title ...