This quartet combines a glorious selection of blonde beards and moustaches and eyelashes and floppy fringes with playing that ...

Over the past four decades, the Arditti Quartet have collaborated with almost all the great composers of our time, many of whom, from Elliott Carter to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi to ...

First the Florestans. Now the Leopolds. Lady Bracknell would surely have had something incisive to say about the demise last year of Britain's leading piano trio and, now, of our premier practitioners ...

2023 was always going to be a landmark year for the esteemed Swiss clarinetist and composer Jürg Frey. His 70th birthday was in May and, to celebrate it, the renowned Huddersfield Contemporary Music ...

A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in Germany. The piece, which dates to the mid- to late-1760s, consists of ...

The Dirigo Quartet, one of only a handful of permanent string quartets in Maine, will perform at Hammond Hall on Friday, June ...

Imagine our earliest ancestors huddled deep inside a cave, safe from the howling wind and stalking predators outside. A fire flickers at the center, casting erratic shadows onto the jagged walls.

The Budapest String Quartet has always been my standard-bearer for chamber music. I grew up listening to their recordings, and especially admired not only their gorgeous sound, but also the uncanny ...

Summer is the season when chamber music, that most intimate of musical genres, meets the great outdoors. At America’s destination festivals, you can find chambers by sea (La Jolla SummerFest), in the ...

Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Fifty years ago, the Alban Berg Quartet was founded. A huge box set, comforting yet daring, is an immersive celebration. By David ...