The Writings of Alan George

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.

Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture

Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture
String Quartet No. 6
Symphony 3 “Scottish”

Wolfgang Mozart
Divertimento, K.563
Requiem (arr. String Quartet)
String Quartet K387
Symphony No.41

Carl Nielsen
String Quartet No. 4
Wind Quintet

Sergei Rachmaninoff
String Quartet No. 1

Philip Radcliffe
String Quartet

Emil von Reznicek
Donna Diana Overture

Gioachino Rossini
La scala di seta (Sinfonia)

Edmund Rubbra
String Quartet 2

Franz Schubert
Octet
Piano Sonata D894
String Quartet “Death and the Maiden”
String Quintet
Symphony No.4
Symphony No.10

Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.2
Symphony No.3
Violin Concerto

Dmitri Shostakovich
A Personal Recollection
Shostakovich and the String Quartet
Cello Concerto No.2
Cello Sonata
Impromptu
Miscellaneous chamber works
Piano Quintet
Piano Trio No.2
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
Viola Sonata
Violin Sonata

Jean Sibelius
Pelléas et Mélisande
Rakastava
String Quartet ‘Voces Intimae’
Violin Concerto

Ronald Stevenson
Recitative and Air

Josef Suk
Meditation

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings
Souvenir de Florence
String Quartet No.2
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.6

Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge

Giuseppe Verdi
String Quartet

Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No.2