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The performance was given on period instruments, still more the exception than the rule for Beethoven chamber music. For the first half, the Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Melnikov played a fortepiano ...

Following on the heels of Gardiner's personable chat between works on Sunday about why the LSO violins, violas, wind and brass stand for Schumann (pictured below in 1850) – the proof has been in the ...

The violinist on Schubert, Schumann and Schoenberg, and the poetry and charm of Duke Ellington Vinyl or digital? I’m a big fan of vinyl recordings. Somehow I do prefer them – every time I compare the ...

Mephistopheles turned up in evening dress and top hat, instead of red tights. Marguerite did her hair in a high topknot instead of braids. Faust was a bumbling, bourgeois scholar working in a 19th ...