Beneath the veneer of the "great composers"—Bach, Mozart and Beethoven—lay a wealth of talent that was composed at the same time, often competing with what history has deemed its betters. It would be ...

A clarinet trio is a chamber trio comprising a clarinet, a bowed string instrument such as a violin, viola or cello, and a piano; the phrase can also refer to a composition written for such a trio.

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 ...

Penderecki’s works for string quartet cover the whole of his creative life, the first acknowledged one dating from 1960 and the last from 2016. This recording includes them all, as well as Der ...

Except perhaps for the stately way in which the Clarinet Quintet begins, there are no surprises in these performances. Michael Collins plays with his usual suave assurance, the Brodsky Quartet manage ...

Quartet for Clarinet and Piano Trio Sharon Kam, Clarinet Antje Weithaas, Violin Julian Steckel, Cello Enrico Pace, Piano Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Sharon Kam, Clarinet Enrico Pace, Piano ...

Heard together, the differences between Penderecki’s First and Fourth quartets map an epic journey in 20th-century music Krzysztof Penderecki’s four numbered string quartets do not trace the course of ...

One hopes that the people around and about Mozart realised just how remarkable a composer and performer he really was, although much of the evidence from the time suggests that many failed to spot it.