Apart from their obvious 19th-century Russian connections, the common denominator between the three works here, all gorgeously played by the Nash Ensemble, is a strange one. The scoring of all of them ...

So much for preconceptions. This attractive disc of string quintets from the Gringolts Quartet and (real luxury-casting, this) cellist Christian Poltéra finds Taneyev at his most melodically engaging ...

Alexander Glazunov composed seven string quartets altogether, the first five before he was 35. None of them is a regular part of the quartet literature nowadays, and the young Prokofiev and ...

The St. Petersburg Quartet brought some music from Russia to a concert this summer at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. We hear three of Alexander Glazunov's Novelettes, Op.

Alexander Glazunov wrote his five novelettes for string quartet when he was only 19 years old and full of enthusiasm for international folk music. We'll feature three of them played at the Piccolo ...

The Con Amici Chamber Players will play a program of classical string quartet and chamber music at 8 p.m. Friday, March 14 at the River Theater. Con Amici Chamber Players was founded in Astoria in ...

This collection of rarely heard late-19th-century Russian chamber music is anything but orthodox. Borodin's 1860 String Sextet No. 2 in D minor is incomplete – only the first two movements survive.