Viennese diversity: the Tetzlaff Quartet plays Mozart, Berg and Schubert

Paarvo Järvi and the NHK Symphony give a riveting account of Schumann and Schubert.

The ever consummate conductor delivers a trio of stylistically contrasting works by Haydn, Beethoven and Nielsen with a single trait in common: obdurate perfectionism.

Passion and intensity in a recital of Brahms' chamber music in Lucerne.

The second concert of the Philharmonia’s Brahms cycle saw Brahms’ orchestra at its richest and most full-blooded. Alongside the burnished, glowing colours of the Haydn Variations were placed the autumnal glow of the Third Symphony and the Concerto for Violin and Cello, Brahms’ final orchestral work, with sibling soloists Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff.

30 August to 14 September 2013 marked the second year of the mozart@augsburg festival, held both in and around the city.

It’s easiest to describe Christian Tetzlaff’s approach to playing the violin by what he isn’t trying to do. He is not trying to play as beautifully as possible, in the conventional sense. He is not trying to sound like a nightingale, soaring long, honeyed lines above an accompaniment.