Chamber Music

As early as the 1850s, Robert Schumann wrote prophetically of Johannes Brahms as a messiah who would not so much emerge gradually, but would instead reveal himself at once in...

I have already published this piece under the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen.  I am posting this same piece again because of the quality, one could say the legendary stature, of...

I will just point out here the title of the third movement of the is quartet. It is "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (A...

Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18 For most of the nineteenth century, a shadow hung over German music, a shadow from which up-and-coming composers struggled to emerge. The...

In this posting, I am doing something different.Rather than choose string players who were famous in the past and long dead, I have decided to highlight a phenomenal living string...

I have been on a chamber music kick. I only have a few more to post, and then I will get back to voice. In this post, I will present...

I am taking a little break from vocal music. Instead, I will be posting about chamber music. The first one of these postings is about Dvořák's Quintent No.2 in A...

I have a recording of Mendelssohn's Quintet in A Major, opus 18.  The artists were : Jaime Laredo, violin; Ani Kavafian, violin; Heiichiro Ohyama, viola; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Sharon Robinson,...

There are some pieces of music that have the reputation of being transcendental. No matter what your religion is, or even if you have no religion at all, these pieces...