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 ...

These days, the string quartet as an ensemble is a tried and true form of chamber music, but it’s only within the past three ...

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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SARASOTA -- In what could be seen as a study of piano trio development, the final program of the La Musica International Chamber Music Festival opened with works for that ensemble from two different ...

Ayumi Tanaka isn't kidding with this impressionistic title. The music here isn't very far removed from silence, and its ebbing and drifting has just the formlessness you'd expect from life at 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 ...