Both the quintet and the sextet are substantial works, each lasting over half an hour, and both marked important milestones in Dvorak's career. The quintet, completed in 1875, was the work in which he ...

With the exception of the well known F major work Op 96, often known as the American Quartet, these are the last four string quartets that Dvorák completed – the E flat Op 51 and C major Op 61 in 1879 ...

Dull would (s)he be of soul who wasn’t at least a little excited by a new chamber music label headed by the violinist James Ehnes and featuring the players of the Seattle Chamber Music Society, which ...

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott joined the Miami String Quartet for a recent concert at Music From Angel Fire, in New Mexico. We hear their reading of Antonin Dvorak's Piano Quintet, Op. 81.

If you wanted to make the point that 21st-century string quartet-playing is defined by a virtuosity so agile that it’s indistinguishable from the process of emotional expression, you’d be hard-pushed ...

The Skampa Quartet and viola player Garfield Jackson join Stephen Johnson in dissecting Dvorak's 'American' String Quintet Op. 97. Along with his Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) and the American ...

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A concert beginning with a Dvorak string quintet and ending with a Brahms string sextet, with nothing in between, can seem more a matter of numerology than of piquant planning. But if Sunday afternoon ...