Mozart’s autograph manuscripts reveal he prioritised the practical considerations of performance over compositional authority, according to a musicologist from the University of Sheffield. Mozart’s ...

(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 4 in B flat Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 5 in G, 'How do you do?' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 6 in D ...

The Takács Quartet come to the end, as it were, of their slow-burn survey of Haydn’s late quartets, following recordings on Hyperion of Opp 71 and 74 (12/11), which joined a vivid, generous set of Op ...

"They are some of our very favourite pieces and represent Haydn at the height of his success and compositional skill." write the Maxwell Quartet of Haydn's opus 74. Following on from their releases of ...

A long-lost letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been found in the archives of a prominent French family. Unlike the new piece of Mozart music that recently turned up, this handwritten note, which ...

The six string quartets that Joseph Haydn composed around 1781 - his Op. 33 - contain some of his most inspired and innovative music. Stephen Johnson joins the members of the Wihan Quartet in front of ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...