Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. They can't all be masterpieces... There's no question Beethoven was great, just think of all those ...

Don’t be fooled by the opus number. Beethoven’s Octet for pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns is one of his earliest works, dating from 1792 93, barely a decade after Mozart’s magnificent C ...

Emperor Franz Joseph II and his brother Maximilian, Elector of Cologne, had competing wind bands. Beethoven wrote his Octet, op. 103 for one of them — we're not sure which — and Max's band is the one ...

The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra's Australian Octet performs in a slightly different guise to usual, adding to its ranks clarinet, horn and bassoon. Schubert's Octet could almost be a response to ...

Schubert, Franz 1797-1828 Octet, winds and strings, D. 803, F major Septets (Bassoon, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, violoncello, double bass) Octets (Bassoon ...

It pains me in a way to say this about my friends in the Vienna Octet, but here they lose every round to an assortment of Britishers — schrecklich Gedanke! I never have heard of the Melos Ensemble ...