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 ...

With the intimidating shadow of Beethoven looming, it took Johannes Brahms fifteen years to compose his first symphony. But having surmounted that daunting obstacle, it took him less than a year to ...