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 ...

Trio Wanderer capture Schumann’s playfulness in a group of works demanding contrast and balance Schumann composed four piano trios altogether – the three that are numbered, and a set of four pieces ...

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 ...

Piano Quintet Molinari Quartet Louise Bessette, Piano Alfred Schnittke, Composer Their performance of Schnittke’s Piano Quintet, with Canadian pianist Louise Bessette, highlights another asset, the ...

This pairing of Schumann’s larger-scale chamber works has lightness and clarity, the instruments are beautifully balanced It’s eight years now since violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Hiromi will be joined by PUBLIQuartet to form The Piano Quintet for one ...

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 ...

The 52 years that separate Dvorak’s innocently charming Piano Quintet (1887) from the bleak pessimism and suppressed bitterness of Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet (1939) represents a descent into ...

A typical jazz piano trio consists of an acoustic piano, bass and drums. The pianist usually serves as the leader, and often composes most of the songs the players perform, but that in no way ...

Here are two sizeable works which Romania's greatest composer somehow lost sight of – neither surfaced until the 1960s, a decade or so after his death. The 1940 Piano Quintet is in that fluid, ...

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 ...