Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op.22; String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir de Florence,” Op.70 Vermeer Quartet, with Rami Solomonow, John Sharp (Cedille). Chicago is fortunate to have as ...

The Pueblo-based Veronika String Quartet opens its 25th anniversary season with two concerts this weekend featuring music by Russian composers. The quartet plays at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Ascension ...

Tchaikovsky might be remembered for his three major ballets or the three last symphonies but not for his three string quartets. Yet although Tchaikovsky is not particularly associated with chamber ...

Tchaikovsky’s Quartet No.2 is typical of its composer without being a masterpiece. Quartet No.3, however, is just that, with its magnificent slow movement including an impressive evocation of Russian ...

Imagine being in the audience for the musical soirée at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1876 when Tchaikovsky met Tolstoy. For years afterwards the composer recalled how Tolstoy was so moved by the slow ...

The Borodin Quartet has a very special relationship with the music by Shostakovich. The quartet may be made up of different players these days, but they still play off the parts with notes given by ...

HERE'S an imperative for CD collectors and fans of the Scottish Ensemble. Released tomorrow is the orchestra's first recording on Linn Records in a decade. It is a stonker, with a characteristically ...

2 of 3 — The group played at Carnegie's most intimate and very elegant Weill Recital Hall. As one audience member remarked during intermission, this is the "sweetest place for chamber music." 3 of 3 — ...

1 Photo/Video: Carolee Carmello Leads KIMBERLY AKIMBO National Tour An incredible ensemble with international acclaim, The Emerson Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets with an ...

The Borodin String quartet performed as part of the International Festival of the Arts and the Chamber Music NZ 2010 programme to a packed Town Hall. The programme was exclusively Russian and featured ...

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 1 Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108 Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, "From My Life" If you haven't yet heard the ...