Bringing attention to a neglected aspect of the composer’s work, this recording shows these quintets are one of his finest achievements, full of lyricism and power With the exception of a handful of ...

MANCHESTER – Taconic Music musicians revealed virtuosity and musical depth in string quintets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn Saturday in the Riley Center for the Arts at Burr and Burton Academy. This ...

A lot of yoga classes included music, but in Pennsylvania, yogis are moving to the performance of a live string quintet and music composed just for yoga practice. There's yoga with baby goats or yoga ...

Two of the great cornerstones of 19th-century chamber music were written by Brahms. Each, in a very different way, is a colossus, and each is a total masterpiece: of structure, craftsmanship and ...

Brahms famously ran into problems with a two-cello string quintet, which metamorphosed into a work for two pianos, and then into the great Piano Quintet we know today. Small wonder, then, that his two ...

Mendelssohn's two string quintets, using a second viola à la Mozart rather than a second cello like Schubert, are at least the equal of his string quartets, yet are much more rarely heard. The first ...

There's a unique opportunity to enjoy the rich and rapturous string quintets of Mozart and Brahms when the New Zealand String Quartet are joined by German violist Hariolf Schlichtig for a nationwide ...

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Mozart’s most famous quintets conclude a sequence of four instrumental works from the winter and spring of 1786 87 whose first movements, at least, are on an unprecedentedly monumental scale: the ...

String Quintet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 174: I. Allegro moderato String Quintet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 174: II. Adagio String Quintet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 174: III. Menuetto ma allegretto ...

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Mozart wrote his first string quintet at the age of 17, choosing to add a second viola to the string quartet (the viola was an instrument he took a particular delight in playing). But, apart from ...