The violinist hero Michael Holme would very much like to be hearing secret harmonies. Instead, living in London 10 years after a key disaster, he is easily irritated by his young girlfriend and his colleagues in the Maggiore Quartet. He's fed up with playing second fiddle in life and art. A chance encounter with Julia, the pianist he had loved and lost, appears to bring Michael sudden bliss.

Gillian Rogell hosts this video as she and the Jupiter Quartet coach student and amateur groups, with commentary by Paul Katz, founding cellist of the Cleveland Quartet. Bonus features include a performance of the 1st movement of the Brahms Sextet in G major with the Jupiter Quartet, Paul Katz, and Barry Shiffman, viola, and an extensive conversation about chamber music with Paul Katz.

Will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the string quartet, the music and its interpretation.

Ranging from Gregorian chant to Philip Glass, this well-balanced guide to historical and comtemporary classical music examines major works by 500 composers worldwide. It focuses on exemplary recordings of symphonies, operas, concertos, choral pieces, chamber music, piano pieces and other works performed by an internatinoal spectrum of premier conductors, musicians and vocalists.

A relaxed and engaging portrait of the incomparable chamber- music ensemble (1917-67) and its four most important principals, gracefully interwoven into a history of string-quartet playing in America.

Academy Award winning filmmakers bring this spirited and often humorous documentary about the world-famous Guarneri String Quartet. Filled with the music of Haydn, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven, this provocative yet enjoyable film joins the Quartet during intimate rehearsals and recording sessions, as well as on tour to Prague, Venice, Baden-Baden, and across the United States.

This documentary follows rural cattle farmer Francis Humphrys as he masterminds the annual two-week, international West Cork Chamber Music Festival. The 1998 programme is rich in classical and Irish music and features celebrity artists such as Joanna MacGregor, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet and a John Tavener première.

Smith and Schoenberg provide basic introductions geared to lay readers, focusing on the essentials of their respective musical genres, including a history of the form, a description of genres, brief biographies of featured composers and performers, glossaries, and recommended pieces and recordings (50 CDs for each).

This has remained the best and most successful guide to classical music for more than forty years. Fully revised by its team of eminent authors and written with wit and passion, this guide offers reviews of all the latest releases as well as the finest established recordings.

This delicately nuanced novel, winner of Israel's Bialik Prize, balances the voices of the four German-Jewish refugees who are members of a string quartet formed just before the onset of World War II in Palestine. Exiled from their homes, the musicians attempt to make a life in music outside history.

Steinhardt turns this memoir about becoming a classical concert performer into an adventure. Beyond the specifics of a lifetime spent learning music (Steinhardt remembers swooning to Beethoven as a six-year-old), the first violinist of the celebrated Guarneri Quartet shapes his story with a series of almost mythical odysseys and visions that parallel his technical and intellectual progress.