Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

The Tinalley String Quartet aspires to be the first Australian quartet to record the complete catalogue of string quartets by the great romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn. The first of three ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Two prodigious composers who lived half a ...

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 ...

Mendelssohn's string quartets belie the received image of his being an emotionally safe composer, and the Quatuor Ebène's latest album presents us with what are probably the most intense pieces in his ...

Extraordinary as it sounds, I think this may be the first time that the string-ensemble chamber music of Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn has been paired together on a recording, rather than with ...

Penetrating playing of three distinct works from the mighty Mendelssohn. Album of the Weekend, 19-20 April 2014. Among the many good String Quartets currently on the scene, the Berlin-based Artemis ...

Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the other an outpouring of anguish after his sister Fanny’s death, are, for me, among ...

You may have already heard the Mendelssohn String Quartet, who will perform Saturday night at the Lucas Theatre. The group-violinists Miriam Fried and Nicholas Mann, violist Daniel Panner; and cellist ...

Written late in his brief life, Felix Mendelssohn wasn't satisfied with his String Quintet No. 2 from 1845. He said, "Though not an art work in the highest sense, it is still an exercise in forms and ...