Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh […]
Every Parsifal conductor must do more than simply guide the performance, he must also allow certain aspects to run their own course if he is to do justice to a work of such monumental proportions. […]