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 ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès. By Joshua Barone The group returned to Zankel Hall for the ...

Time stands still in Schubert’s String Quintet. Abstracted, other-worldly, this is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, its surface stillness made tangible by the Quatuor Ebène and cellist ...

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 ...

Two recent performances of Franz Schubert’s sublime String Quintet in C Major provided an opportunity to test a common presumption in the classical-music business: that older performers invariably ...

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 ...

Founded by Jeremy Cohen, Quartet San Francisco has scored multiple Grammy nominations for its eclectic mix of Latin music, pop, jazz, bluegrass, R&B and music from around the world.

A lot of yoga classes included music, but in Pennsylvania, yogis are moving to the performance of a live string quintet and music composed just for yoga practice. There's yoga with baby goats or yoga ...

Late style is necessarily defined after the fact and thus a category of nostalgia. “Let It Be” is late Beatles but music by young men. Does the Calder Quartet, which played a superb concert at Santa ...

To spend time with the members of the Spokane String Quartet is to be witness to a very long, very comfortable relationship. Members of the group — cellist Helen Byrne, second violinist Amanda ...