These six quartets are not as well known as those of Haydn's Op. 76, but they should be. No piece sounds like the others, and all are fascinating. The famous Tátrai Quartet recordings (Hungaroton) have been the standard for Haydn's quartets for years,...
When Giacomo Puccini received an offer from Vienna to write an opera yes: similar to Der Rosenkavalier, only more entertaining and more organic, he replied, An operetta, that for me is out of the question. What the composition became is La rondine- a...
