Alan Rich

Caught up in the charms of Ervin Schulhoff's First String Quartet - as played by the Petersen Quartet at the Doheny Mansion last week in one of the Da Camera Society's "Chamber Music and Historic Sites" concerts - I found it was hard to avoid shedding a tear for what......

It may well be true, as a colleague pointed out in last Sunday’s L.A.Times, that the Beethoven glut has reached the point of absurdity, that the hundred-or-so available recordings of the Fifth Symphony are 95-or-so too many. It is equally true, however, that the DNA of great works of music......