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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Debussy’s unmistakably Gallic quartet is usually paired with Ravel’s. Here we hear it alongside lesser-known chamber ...

Deveau and the Borromeo String Quartet perform piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven as chamber music on a new recording. Lloyd Schwartz says the album is "full of feeling and discovery." This is ...

This disc is a perfect demonstration of what treasures might be waiting to be rediscovered among Charles Koechlin's huge and still drastically undervalued output. Both the Piano Quintet and the Third ...

The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis presented a program of romantic music in honor of Valentine’s Day on Monday, February 16 at 560 Music Center. While I don’t see any good reason why love and ...

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 ...