Canadian James Campbell's playing with the NZSO evoked a sense of spirited dialogue. Monday's evening of quintets featuring Canadian clarinettist James Campbell with the New Zealand String Quartet ...

Coupling music by Brahms and Bartók makes enormous sense, given the former composer's penchant for Hungarian dance music. Janine Jansen's studio recording of Bartók's Violin Concerto No 1 makes a ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms's String Quintet No 1 in F major, Op 88, and chooses her favourite. Show more Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms's String Quintet No 1 in F major, ...

Accordo opened its fifth season on Monday night at Christ Church Lutheran in Minneapolis playing two major string quintets, by Mozart and Brahms. Violist Hsin-Yun Huang was guest artist. This was a ...

These recordings prove that the Nash Ensemble, Britain’s peerless chamber group, is in better shape than ever. I can’t remember a keener musical pleasure in recent months than hearing violinists ...

Brahms struggled for three years to find just the right instrumentation for his Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. After rejecting several options, he finally settled on piano plus string quartet. It's ...