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 ...

Nightingale String Quartet and clarinettist Jonas Frølund play Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.

Aside from soloists, it’s safe to say most classical musicians almost always have their sheet music close at hand. But the young players in the Chiara String Quartet have challenged themselves to ...

Piano trios have cause to be grateful that Brahms’s loyal friend Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) did such a thoroughly professional job arranging the two string sextets for violin, cello and piano.

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. This useful pairing finds Brahms at his most autumnal, the entire quartet unfolding at moderate speeds ...

LEWISBURG -- The Celentano String Quartet will perform in concert on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall of the Weis Music Building at Bucknell University. The concert, which is free to the ...

The Brodsky Quartet started young and, with a couple of changes of leader during their lifetime, celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2012. Great musical ambassadors, they excel in a wide range of ...

The Takács Quartet also offer a rival recording of the C minor String Quartet (their Hyperion remake, which follows almost two decades after their first recording for Decca, 9/90 R). While both the ...

Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...