Trio Wanderer capture Schumann’s playfulness in a group of works demanding contrast and balance Schumann composed four piano trios altogether – the three that are numbered, and a set of four pieces ...

Adapting ‘Antonia’ While Willa Cather forbade any adaptation of her work, pianist/composer Sir Stephen Hough hopes his ...

Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello Isabelle Faust, Violin Antoine Tamestit, Viola Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello Alexander Melnikov, Piano Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an ...

Here are two sizeable works which Romania's greatest composer somehow lost sight of – neither surfaced until the 1960s, a decade or so after his death. The 1940 Piano Quintet is in that fluid, ...

The chamber music that Elgar composed in little over a year at the end of the first world war – a violin sonata, followed by the two works on this Hyperion disc – has never gained the popularity of ...

Every Friday, we’ll be sharing a piece of music that resonates particularly strongly with one of our staffers. This week: James Bennett on the anxiety, cruelty and flirtations of hope in Dora ...

A typical jazz piano trio consists of an acoustic piano, bass and drums. The pianist usually serves as the leader, and often composes most of the songs the players perform, but that in no way ...

Intensity. There's no more appropriate word to describe Robert Schumann. Everything in his life seemed to be done with nothing less than total commitment, from his unrelenting pursuit of the love of ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...

The Pavel Haas Quartet and Boris Giltburg talk to Hannah Nepil about their fresh approach The Pavel Haas Quartet and Boris Giltburg's recording of Dvořák's Quintets has won the 2018 Gramophone Chamber ...

The Goldner String Quartet judges the Elgar idiom persuasively, finding that blend of sensibility and muscularity, wistful meditation and optimistic motivation. The main works are the E minor String ...