At the Wigmore Hall last Friday, the Takacs String Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson played a piano quintet that was once revered as a masterpiece but then fell out of fashion and wasn’t heard for decades. It’s by Amy Beach, a name which always makes me smile because it looks so incongruous underneath her photograph.
Damian Thompson
Life’s a Beach
The composer's lifelong romantic style explains why demand for her music dried up, not, as some would like to think, prejudice
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