News on Chamber Music

The 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards - Press Room

2010-01-31T21:18:16Z

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 31: Musicians Larry Dutton and Philip Setzer of Emerson String Quartet pose with Best Chamber Music Performance award for 'Intimate Letters' in the press room during the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Las Vegas Philharmonic concert were almost hurling themselves at the stage after Giora SchmidtÕs performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.</p><p>Expect a different kind of unbridled excitement Saturday, when the Philharmonic will invite the audience to Òcome on down...

BBC New Generation gives young musicians a boost

2010-02-25T10:01:50Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - When it comes to defining who the BBC "New Generation" artist program is designed for, it's hard to find anyone more appropriate than violinist Jennifer Pike.</p><p&...

SC's Spoleto hits sales goal ahead of last weekend

2010-02-27T01:09:47Z

<div id="subtitle">SC's Spoleto Festival USA reaches ticket sales target ahead of closing weekend</div><div><p>The Spoleto Festival USA enters its final weekend of concerts, plays and fireworks with good news amid tough economic times: It reached a scaled-back target for ticket sales, unless final events are rained out.</p><p>The internationally known arts...

Blind pianists wows audiences at piano contest

2010-02-27T03:52:39Z

<div id="subtitle">Now in semifinals, blind pianist from Japan wows audiences at prestigious Cliburn contest</div><div><p>With a dramatic bow of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii's head, rich sounds of the piano, violins, cello and viola broke the concert hall silence as he and a string quartet played Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 4...

Hollywood Quartet, Edinburgh Festival 1957

2009-04-10T17:02:59Z

Chamber music - the Hollywood Quartet give Beethoven recital in the Freemasons' Hall during the Edinburgh Festival 1957

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Industrial Civil Defence Association conference for executives for industry at City Chamber group - Mr J C Buchanan - Mr J B Allan - Capt Cook- Mr J W Rodger - Mr J Leadbetter - Mr W V Stevens (Edinburgh)

2009-04-10T16:40:00Z

Industrial Civil Defence Association conference for executives for industry at City Chamber group - Mr J C Buchanan - Mr J B Allan - Capt Cook- Mr J W Rodger - Mr J Leadbetter - Mr W V Stevens

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Celebrations mark 200 years since Haydn's death

2010-03-03T11:22:33Z

<div><p>Celebrations marking 200 years since Joseph Haydn's death began Tuesday in the Austrian town where the composer considered the father of the symphony left his mark on music history.</p><p>A year's worth of events centred in Eisenstadt will recognise Haydn and his work, with all 107 of his symphonies set to be performed at the town's Esterhazy Palace.</p><p&...

Lost Beethoven

2009-04-22T07:43:16Z

Paris-based pianist George Lepauw and fellow members of the Beethoven Projecy Trio, violinist Sang Mee Lee, left, and cellist Wendy Warner rehearse at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, for the world premiere of a heretofore unperformed

Lost Mendelssohn works airing before 200th b-day

2010-03-02T18:17:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Long-lost Mendelssohn works to get airing days before the composer's 200th birthday</div><div><p>The world is getting a musical present for Felix Mendelssohn's 200th birthday — the first performances of 13 long-lost works of the German composer.</p><p>The compositions were among 270 Mendelssohn pieces hidden in libraries or in pr...

Orange County News - January 23, 2009

2009-03-13T10:00:22Z

Colburn Conservatory String Quartet perform Beethoven's ''String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, OP 18'' at the Laguna Beach Artists Theatre on Thursday.///ADDITIONAL INFO: 0123.cv.musical.0127 - 01/22/09 - Photo by Rose Palmisano / The Orange County Register - Review of the first mains conc...

Spoleto Festival USA unveils modest 2009 schedule

2010-03-03T01:41:54Z

<div id="subtitle">Smaller Spoleto Festival USA budget means more modest festival in South Carolina</div><div><p>Tributes to longtime chamber music director Charles Wadsworth, a return visit by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and an operetta inspired by movie...

Music and emotion

2010-03-01T02:37:14Z

<div><p> Beethoven Unwrapped is the title of the year-long musical celebration marking the opening of Kings Place, the new 'creative centre' at King's Cross. But does Beethoven, of all composers, need unwrapping? The answer is yes, more than ever, if the process allows us to examine his music without constantly genuflecting in front of the sy...

Dance experiment springs from Elvis Costello’s music experiment

2010-03-01T04:49:16Z

<div><p> The main event at College of Southern Nevada’s fall dance concert this weekend was the premiere of “The Juliet Letters,” a new work by Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Kelly Roth. An hourlong suite set to Costa Mesa.///ADDITIONAL INFO: guarneri1120 - 11/15/08- Photo by Rose Palmisano / The Orange County Register - The Guarneri and Johannes string quartets perform together at the Samueli Theatre in Costa Mesa

Classical preview: Mozartfest, Bath

2010-03-02T00:03:36Z

<div><p>The festival season may be running down in mid-November, but Bath is a perfect festival setting at any time of year and this is 18th year in which Mozartfest has enlivened the murky days of late autumn in the Georgian spa. Though the festival ends next Saturday with a concert by Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra Of The Age...

Classical music review: Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos 1-3

2010-03-02T00:36:15Z

<div><p>As anyone who has heard their accounts of the Schubert piano trios with pianist Frank Brailey from last year will know, the Capu&amp;ccedil;on brothers, violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier, are chamber musicians of the highest quality. They also seem to find collaborators of equal refinement, and these performances of the three Brahms

Intimate, masterful and free

2010-03-02T09:28:51Z

<div id="subtitle">Trio of classical musicians ready for concert series with salon-style performance</div><div><p> The trio were near the end of the third movement of Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 when the doorbell rang. The brief interruption served as an acute reminder that we were not in the composer’s Stalinist reality, as the musicians had so convinced us by their ...

Mozart: Oboe Quartet; Britten: Phantasy Quartet; Dohnanyi: Serenade; etc: Batiashvili/Leleux/Power/Klinger

2010-02-27T18:34:27Z

<div><p>As you'd expect from instrumentalists of this pedigree, much of the playing on this disc is of the highest class, yet the final impression is one of slight disappointment. Fran&amp;ccedil;ois Leleux's playing in the Oboe Quartet is marvellously supple and fluent, but it's almost too elegant and relaxed for the character of this intensely attractive three-movement work to come across, despite the equally suave contributions from his wife, violinist

Takács Quartet

2010-02-27T18:44:04Z

<div><p>Staples of the late-Victorian repertoire, Schumann's string quartets fell out of favour in the mid-20th century. They are rightly very much back in vogue today, and Schumann's chamber music, the piano quintet as well as the quartets, is the thread linking all three South Bank appearances by the Tak&amp;aacute;cs Quartet this season. This is a series of concerts absolutely not to be missed. The Tak&amp;aacute;cs take Schumann on his own terms, a...