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The Marmen Quartet and Chiaroscuro Quartet perform at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival ...

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 ...

The chamber music that Elgar composed in little over a year at the end of the first world war – a violin sonata, followed by the two works on this Hyperion disc – has never gained the popularity of ...

If any single piece epitomises the beauty and the hypnotic power of Morton Feldman's final works, it is Piano and String Quartet, composed in 1985, just two years before his death. Performances ...

Mozart is well known for his exploits in the fields of opera, symphony, concerto, mass, chamber and solo music – in fact, just about any classical discipline available at the time was mastered by him, ...

Quintet for Piano and Strings Takács Qt Marc-André Hamelin, Piano César Franck, Composer When the seasoned artistry of the Takács Quartet blends with the thoughtful brilliance of Marc-André Hamelin, a ...

I wonder if in the original order we’d also have got Denk’s short talk before the first book of Ligeti Etudes. He’s a natural here too, demonstrating ideas without looking at the keyboard, remaining ...

Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello Isabelle Faust, Violin Antoine Tamestit, Viola Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello Alexander Melnikov, Piano Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an ...

Today's composers would love to discover the elusive formula for artistic permanence. But it was probably always so. Even German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) did not instantly achieve the ...

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 ...