At age 16 — please repeat, 16 — Felix Mendelssohn composed one of the most miraculous pieces of chamber music of the last two centuries. His Octet for Strings in E-flat Major is a pedal-to-the-metal ...

Music@Menlo's venerable chamber music festival is winding down, but there is one more impressive program on its lineup for two performances. This year's iteration has presented music composed for duos ...

That phrase has a nice ring to it for violinist Quinton Morris, founder of the Young Eight string octet featured on tonight’s International Chamber Music Series at Meany Theater. Performances and ...

Plenty of trios and quartets exist in the classical-music world. An octet is a rarer bird. On Saturday, an octet with impeccable lineage will land with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber ...

Our first selection tonight is one of the earliest works from Stravinsky’s neoclassical period. The octet features a rare example of Stravinsky’s use of sonata form, a parody of a Mozart concerto, and ...

Fortunately the work happens to be a showstopper that never fades, full of vibrant energy, exciting virtuosity and dramatic ­pathos. Written, almost unbelievably, when the composer was only 16, the ...

The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play the Scherzo movement from Felix ...

As consequence of Vermont’s flooding, the venerable Craftsbury Chamber Players’ 57th season got off to a shaky start last week. The challenge was as much to get the Players to the concert from ...

The Jupiter and Jasper String Quartets announce the February 5, 2021 release of a collaborative album on Marquis Classics, produced by Grammy-winner Judith Sherman. This new release features the world ...