The Paris-based group’s first disc is a wonderfully detailed recording of Brahms quartets that at times might benefit from a more muscular edge Quatuor Agate owe their name to Brahms – taking it from ...

The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest Naxos release offers the first two string quartets of Brahms, ...

'These are not comfortable performances’, Rob Cowan wrote in his review of the Zehetmair Quartet’s 2003 Gramophone Award-winning album of Schumann string quartets. And Rob’s words ring true for the ...

The Amsterdam Sinfonietta is Holland's only professional string orchestra, and seems to make a speciality of performing works from the chamber-music repertory in expanded versions. The 23-strong group ...

Aside from soloists, it’s safe to say most classical musicians almost always have their sheet music close at hand. But the young players in the Chiara String Quartet have challenged themselves to ...

I feel much the same way about the Novus Quartet’s Brahms as I did about their Tchaikovsky (Aparté, 11/17), my initial encounter with this ensemble. There, I described the ensemble’s wiry, glistening ...

Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...

Musica Tra Amici (Music Among Friends) will have their first concert of 2022. For this chamber music concert, Artistic Director and Houston Symphony co-concertmaster, Eric Halen, will be joined by his ...

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Uninspired by his sketches for a Fifth and Sixth Symphony, Brahms intended the G-major Quintet to be his last work. A vibrant synthesis of Magyar snap, Baroque figures and Bohemian lyricism, it is ...