Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...

Shriver Hall Concert Series will continue its 60th anniversary and 2025-26 concert season this March with performances by the Isidore String Quartet with pianist Jeremy Denk and soprano Golda Schultz ...

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Although German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is known primarily for his symphonies and solo piano pieces, his canon of compositions runs much deeper. Among Beethoven's other accomplishments are his ...

The local chamber music scene is about to discover a significant change as the Koerner String Quartet, ensemble in residence at the Vancouver Academy of Music, becomes the Koerner Piano Trio. In the ...

Jed Distler reads a majestic book on Beethoven’s chamber music: ‘Donat unwraps the complex layers of Beethoven’s ...

The Goldner String Quartet judges the Elgar idiom persuasively, finding that blend of sensibility and muscularity, wistful meditation and optimistic motivation. The main works are the E minor String ...

If you're fond of César Franck's piano quintet and wondered if anyone else ever wrote another work in the same spirit, you'll be delighted to discover the 1917 quintet by Franck's pupil, Gabriel ...

Like most of Sibelius’s chamber music, the Piano Quintet comes from his apprentice years, and it’s only in the past decade that it has earned a proper hearing. It has an expansive five-movement ...