The quartet, made up of Royal Northern Sinfonia musicians Sarah Roberts, first violin, Sophie Appleton, second violin, James Slater, viola, and Tom Rathbone, cello, performed works by Haydn, Arthur ...

Commissioned from American composer Derrick Skye, the one-movement Deliverance was a “transcultural” string quartet, blending Persian classical melodic material with rhythmic elements from West and ...

San Diego’s Mainly Mozart festival concluded its six-concert 2025 season Saturday with triumphs on and off stage.

Strings Music Festival will open its 38th season on Saturday with “Contrasts in Classical,” an innovative reimagining of ...

The Mozartists at the Wigmore Hall: a flirty, playful take on the composer's works - 4/5 This plan to follow the life of ...

LONDON (AP) — Alfred Brendel, a pianist and poet renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven over a six-decade career, died Tuesday at his home in London. He was 94. Brendel’s death was announced by ...

They developed a friendly father-son relationship, and Mozart wrote in letters that Haydn was his "dearest friend." In 1785, he dedicated six string quartets to Haydn, to whom he handed the scores ...

The program: Mozart's "Misericordia Domini," K.222; Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B-flat major, nicknamed the "Little Organ Mass"; and Vivaldi's cantata "Cessate, omai cessate" for ...

It is believed that Mozart himself played the viola part, which he transposed up a semitone to enhance its sonority and brilliance. Finally, is Joseph Haydn’s Symphony no. 97 in C major, Hob. I:97.

Collectibles Rare Mozart Letter Pitching His Famed Haydn Quartets Heads to Auction "I cannot let these go as cheaply," the composer wrote. Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (ca ...

Two of them, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Mozart, we know well. The other two, the Bohemian composer Johann Wanhal and the splendidly named Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, we hardly know at all.