The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poiesis Quartet at the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity) Like a ...

The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

The string quartet might be a 250-year-old contraption, but the members of the Turtle Island Quartet keep it revved up and ready to zoom in surprising directions. The group sounds totally at home ...

The New Modern Jazz Quartet... It is hard to not compare this Classical Jazz Quartet to the Modern Jazz Quartet. They both have the same format of outstanding individual superstars, they both have a ...

Orphaned at age five from a musical family, French composer Félicien-César David had a religious upbringing, and would go to study at the Paris Conservatory in 1830. But he left after eighteen months, ...

The star Scottish guitarist turns to South America; Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva play Poulenc and more; and the Mēla Guitar Quartet premiere works by the author of A Clockwork Orange Capable of ...

When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...

Amazon mp3: $9.5 | Amazon CD: ~$17 | ArkivMusic: $20 | Qobuz: £10 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 The String Quartets of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (*1946) are manifold works of considerable, eerie ...

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