Here is an interesting cross section of contemporary American quartets. All four were written and premiered in the past eight years. They share a harmonic language...
The brass band tradition in Great Britain is one that goes back more than two centuries. Created as a form of communal music-making, these bands—which are...
The first duo in Alexander Hülshoff and Friedemann Eichhorn’s collection of fantasies written in collaboration by Adrien François Servais and violinists Joseph Ghys, Hubert Léonard, and...
Samuel Barber’s Toccata Festiva for organ and orchestra presents the best of him. It is variously brilliantly virtuosic and deeply meditative, and speaks—more to the point,...
First off, the Spanish Art Guitar Quartet is made up not of Spaniards but of Germans—Germans who feel a special affinity for Spanish music, though. Their...
Three Silicon Valley musicians—Daniel Cher, violin; Michel Flexer, cello; and Russell Hancock, piano—joined in 2007 to form a new ensemble. Calling themselves the Saint Michael Trio...
