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Mozart’s C major Viola Quintet is among the very greatest of his chamber music masterpieces. The possibilities of adding one extra voice to a string quartet clearly interested the composer in his late years, perhaps …

The Hagen Quartet has attained an unparalleled position among the finest ensembles of our time, having been declared “the pinnacle of musicality” (Die Presse). For nearly four decades, the Hagen Quartet has performed throughout the …

After completing this concerto in 1806, Beethoven struggled to find anyone to perform it. So the work sat on a shelf gathering dust, until its public premiere on 22 December 1808. Just imagine that you …

Schubert himself subtitled his 4th Symphony ‘Tragic’. Although the introduction to the first movement does have the sense of gloom and tragedy about it, whether the rest of the symphony has much tragedy in it …

Russian pianist Evgeny Koroliov first attended the Central Music School where he was a pupil of Anna Artobolesvkaya. During this time he also got lessons from Heinrich Neuhaus and Maria Yudina. He continued his studies …