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
Rossini: La scala di seta (Sinfonia)
Rubbra: String Quartet 2
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata
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
Serenade No. 2
Benjamin Britten
String Quartet No. 3
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto 2
Frederic Delius
Delius: String Quartet
Antonin Dvořák
Piano Quintet
Edward Elgar
Piano Quintet
Gabriel Fauré
String Quartet
Cesar Franck
Piano Quintet
Charles Gounod
Petite Symphonie
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet op. 76/3 “Emperor”
Charles Ives
Central Park in the Dark
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet No.1 “Kreutzer Sonata”
Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony 3 “Scottish”
Carl Nielsen
String Quartet No. 4
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
Impromptu
Piano Quintet
Two Pieces for String Octet
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
String Quartet 12
String Quartet 13
String Quartet 14
Jean Sibelius
String Quartet ‘Voces Intimae’
Violin Concerto
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony 1
Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge
