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“... T he​ end of a concert performance is sometimes greeted with a rapturous silence, broken only when the players lower their instruments and the audience begins to applaud. What is probably only a few seconds of held breath can feel like an eternity. At Beare’s Chamber Music Festival last December, this honour was bestowed on Schoenberg’s string sextet, Verklärte Nacht ...”

“... that inform not only the first of the Gesänge der Frühe but the late music as a whole.’ Laura Tunbridge, who contributes a chapter on Schumann’s post-1836 piano music, is one such critic. In her new book, Schumann’s Late Style, she subjects the Gesang to a three-page, note-by-note analysis, and probes its subtexts and contexts, including ...”

“... anxiety, and aggression, as terrors to be transcended within the work of art itself’.Laura Tunbridge, in her new biographical study, Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, has found an elegant way to give Beethovenian heroism and struggle its due, while slyly plucking at the reverse of Solomon’s martial banner. She organises her narrative ...”