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The piano quintet, in its most common configuration of piano plus string quartet, is an exalted form of chamber music which composers have typically tried just once. Why there are so few examples is a ...

Piano Trio Martinu Quartet Karel Kosárek, Piano Petr Eben, Composer Piano Quintet Petr Eben, Composer Martinu Quartet Karel Kosárek, Piano The result is as memorable for its textural complexity as it ...

This podcast features Brahms's Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor, Opus 34, performed by pianist and Da Camera Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and the Brentano String Quartet. The concert ...

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 ...

While the Takács work their way through the core chamber repertoire for Hyperion, the Goldner, the other great quartet on the label's books, explores its fringes, often in partnership with pianist ...

Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

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 ...

A most distinguished display, then, and it’s preceded here by a keenly perceptive, shrewdly observant account of the String Quartet. Take the slow movement, where Elgar’s marking of Piacevole ...

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 ...