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 ...

ASPEN – This was a good week at the Aspen Music Festival for chamber music, and especially Brahms. On Tuesday night, a Brahms string quintet hit a high point in the hands of the Takacs Quartet. And ...

The Endymion Ensemble (clarinettist Antony Pay, violinists Krysia Osostowicz and Clara Biss, violists Sophie Renshaw and Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir and cellist Jane Salmon) performs Brahms's String ...

"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 ...

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 claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Darkness meets light in the Sept. 12 string quintet performance of works by both ...