Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

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The Tokyo String Quartet, in residency at the Yale School of Music since 1976, gave their first concert of the season last night in a packed Battell Chapel. An all-Brahms program highlighted the ...

It has become a sort of victory parade, a series of celebratory events for the Rubens Quartet as it completes its current visit to Bloomington and the Indiana University campus for the Summer Music ...

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London audiences are lucky to have the Skampa Quartet as a more-or-less permanent fixture, primarily at the Wigmore Hall where it has given a number of memorable concerts. Now in its 11th year, it ...

Beethoven - Sonata in F minor Op 2 No 1. Eroica Variations. Sibelius - Romance Op 24 No 9. Reverie Op 58 No 1. Brahms - Sonata in F minor Op 5. Antti Siirala, the first prizewinner at the AXA Dublin ...

Before we plow into the weekend's (and next week's) great art events, I would like to take a moment to remember first-generation UC Davis art faculty William Wiley. Some of my most fun and interesting ...

String quartets can boast of so much transcendent repertoire that it's easy to understand why the Cleveland Chamber Music Society tends to favor this complement of instruments. To end its 60th season ...