Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

Bringing attention to a neglected aspect of the composer’s work, this recording shows these quintets are one of his finest achievements, full of lyricism and power With the exception of a handful of ...

Before it was finally transformed into perhaps the best-known of all Brahms's chamber works, the Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 had begun life as a quintet for strings alone, its initial inspiration ...

If the Wigmore Hall sought perfection in its 125th Anniversary Festival, it found it in the two concerts I've attended this ...

Brahms famously ran into problems with a two-cello string quintet, which metamorphosed into a work for two pianos, and then into the great Piano Quintet we know today. Small wonder, then, that his two ...

Not everything a great composer writes is always great music. Everyone has a hit rate and these vary from genius to genius. Even by Schubert’s own standards, though, the Adagio from the String Quintet ...

Time stands still in Schubert’s String Quintet. Abstracted, other-worldly, this is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, its surface stillness made tangible by the Quatuor Ebène and cellist ...

Quintet for Strings (in A) Nash Ensemble Max Bruch, Composer Quintet for Strings (E flat) Nash Ensemble Max Bruch, Composer Octet Max Bruch, Composer Nash Ensemble String players of a certain vintage ...

String Quintet No 20 (André) Georges (Louis) Onslow, Composer Elan Quintet String Quintet No 26 Elan Quintet (André) Georges (Louis) Onslow, Composer And, it has to be said, these five players make a ...

Mozart wrote his first string quintet at the age of 17, choosing to add a second viola to the string quartet (the viola was an instrument he took a particular delight in playing). But, apart from ...

A lot of yoga classes included music, but in Pennsylvania, yogis are moving to the performance of a live string quintet and music composed just for yoga practice. There's yoga with baby goats or yoga ...