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
Dvořák: Piano Quintet
Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture
Shostakovich: String Quartet 12
All articles
Samuel Barber
String Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet, op. 131
Hector Berlioz
Les Nuits d’Été
Georges Bizet
Symphony in C
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto 2
Frederic Delius
Delius: String Quartet
Edward Elgar
Piano Quintet
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”
Symphony 10
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
String Quartet 10
String Quartet 11
“Late” String Quartets
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony 1
Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge
