Mozart’s String Quintets have been called his finest chamber music. No. 4 in g-minor is dark and dramatic, full of “inconsolable sorrow,” as Tchaikovsky said, until the music finally breaks out of the ...

That Beethoven was enduring frustrations of going deaf, unrequited love and strife with patrons when he composed his Piano Sonata No. 23 might explain its dark and agitated feel throughout, until all ...