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 ...

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 ...

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 first of two Naxos discs that will survey Max Reger's string trios and piano quartets (two of each) couples the A minor trio composed in 1904 with the D minor quartet from 1910. Together they ...

There are two kinds of people: those who have never heard of Sergey Taneyev and those who can’t get enough of him. Taneyev, as Tchaikovsky’s pupil and Scriabin’s teacher, was part of the great lineage ...

Boris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Petrenko (Naxos) Always under the shadow of a regime he had to support but privately feared, Shostakovich in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

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 ...