"Definitive" is a dangerous word to use about any performance, especially when the work in question is the rich and repeatedly recorded Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Brahms. But this eloquent, expansive and ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. This useful pairing finds Brahms at his most autumnal, the entire quartet unfolding at moderate speeds ...

The Musical Times is the oldest continuously-published music journal in the world, founded in 1844. For more information, including an extensive archive of obituaries of leading musicians from ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 may have seemed like an interloper on the ...

Recorded at the University of Cumbria in Ambleside as part of the Lake Disctrict Summer Music Festival 2009, Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's third and final string quartet in B flat, Op. 67.

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

For its first concert of 2015, the San Jose Chamber Music Society continues its season featuring pairings of strings and piano. On Jan. 11, the Jupiter String Quartet will be performing at San Jose’s ...

NORFOLK — Three contrasting compositions made up the Brentano String Quartet’s concert Monday evening at Ohef Sholom Temple in Norfolk, part of the Virginia Arts Festival’s Chamber Music Series. It ...