Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have intrigued Mendelssohn; but the relationship between the last two, a flattened sixth against a fifth, ...
Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of the Adagio from Mendelssohn’s Violin Sonata in F major by Emily Sun and Joseph Havlat. Sun plays on the 1753 G.B Guadagnini ‘The Adelaide’ on loan from the ...