The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

Big boxes abound among recent classical CD releases and this is a great time to catch up on some of your favorites, plus some rarities. “Emerson String Quartet: Mendelssohn Quartets” (Deutsche ...

The Schubert Ensemble of London, recognised as a chamber group that ranks amongst the very best, was back for the Bermuda Festival after a three-year interval. Those who had heard this fine group of ...

To mark the 25th anniversary of their formation, the German Fauré Quartet turn to Fauré’s own music for their new album, which juxtaposes the composer’s two piano quartets with a group of his songs ...

The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

A century after the composer’s String Quartet and Piano Quintet were premiered, the Brodsky Quartet return them to the spotlight In May 1919, the first public performances of Elgar’s String Quartet ...

Piano Quartet No. 1 Leopold String Trio Johannes Brahms, Composer Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Piano Quartet No. 2 Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Leopold String Trio Piano Quartet No ...

I really don’t mean to get all Music Appreciation 101 on you, but I need to ask: Have you listened to classical lately? On purpose, I mean. A local string quartet playing Vivaldi during cocktail hour ...

Tense and moody with an air of anxiety, this Quartet was born from Brahms’ complex relationship with the Schumann’s (Brahms was in love with his mentor’s wife). The sense the music could burst in an ...

We all know ‘classical music’ – music that’s distinct from pop, rock or jazz. But what of the Classical era? From Mozart to Beethoven, we explore the greatest composers active in the second half of ...