Alan George, viola player for the Fitzwilliam Quartet for 56 years, is allowing MWI to publish his writings on music, particularly the programme notes written for the quartet’s concerts. We will be publishing a number of these articles each week. The most recent will be found immediately below, and links to all further down this page.
Most recent articles
Bizet: Symphony in C
Elgar: Piano Quintet
Shostakovich: String Quartet 10
All articles
Alan George – A Profile
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet, op. 131
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto 2
Frederic Delius
Delius: String Quartet
Gabriel Fauré
String Quartet
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet op. 76/3 “Emperor”
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony 3 “Scottish”
Franz Schubert
String Quartet “Death and the Maiden”
Robert Schumann
Symphony 3
Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich
A Personal Recollection
Shostakovich and the String Quartet
Two Pieces for String Quartet
String Quartet 1
String Quartet 2
String Quartet 3
String Quartet 4
String Quartet 5
String Quartet 6
String Quartet 7
String Quartet 8
String Quartet 9
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony 1
