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 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 ...

If you're fond of César Franck's piano quintet and wondered if anyone else ever wrote another work in the same spirit, you'll be delighted to discover the 1917 quintet by Franck's pupil, Gabriel ...

Like most of Sibelius’s chamber music, the Piano Quintet comes from his apprentice years, and it’s only in the past decade that it has earned a proper hearing. It has an expansive five-movement ...

When one talks about "jazz piano music," it is almost taken for granted they are talking about jazz piano trio music. The trio is and has been most jazz pianists' favorite format, and with good reason ...

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 ...