Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What would we give to be a fly on the wall at Mozart’s home in Vienna early in 1785 when Haydn arrived to hear ...
A long-lost letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been found in the archives of a prominent French family. Unlike the new piece of Mozart music that recently turned up, this handwritten note, which ...
The second half of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of Western classical music’s most perfect form – the string quartet. And the quartets written first by Haydn, then by Mozart, then by ...
The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a ...
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The Engegård Quartet last appeared in these pages in a pairing of Schumann’s Piano Quartet and Quintet (with Nils Anders Mortensen), acclaimed by Richard Bratby for its ‘bracing clarity with ...
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Le nozze di Figaro: Welsh National Opera Millennium Centre, Cardiff, and touring Haydn Quartets: Jerusalem Quartet Wigmore Hall, London W1 Haydn, in uncharacteristically bad mood and perhaps a little ...