The Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival rolled into its second week with a concert of unexpected contrasts. The festival, celebrating 30 years of consistently high musicianship and ...

The string quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel not only rank among the most recorded string quartets, they are most often found together on the same recording. Debussy composed his quartet in ...

The Takács Quartet is best known for its gritty but stylish approach to the music of German and Eastern European composers — Bartók, Beethoven, Haydn, and so forth. So there’s a certain frisson in ...

Written 10 years apart, Ravel and Debussy’s quartets are often compared. Indeed, Ravel greatly admired Debussy’s quartet and sought to produce a work equal to that of his elder colleague. He ended up ...

It’s 60 years since Amelia Freedman and a group of fellow students at the Royal Academy of Music established The Nash Ensemble. I’ve lost count of the repertoire they’ve introduced me to over the ...

The Elias String Quartet plays the Newman Center Wednesday night as part of the Friends of Chamber Music concert series. The program consists of Haydn’s String Quartet in F major, Opus 77, No. 2; ...

Ok, I exaggerate. But not all that much: Circa’s performers are so impressive, they do appear to defy nature. Olympic gymnasts, contemporary ballerinas, and experienced yogis all possess analogous ...

Kinderszenen, Movements: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Brodsky Quartet Robert Schumann, Composer Philip Fisher, Piano Kinderszenen, Movements: Curiose Geschichte Brodsky Quartet Philip Fisher, ...