Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. How does a grand piano make such a beautiful sound? Piano technician Ara Vartoukian explains by pulling ...

A century after the composer’s String Quartet and Piano Quintet were premiered, the Brodsky Quartet return them to the spotlight In May 1919, the first public performances of Elgar’s String Quartet ...

Carolyn Warner (piano), Lisa Boyko (viola), Bryan Dumm (cello), Katherine Bormann (violin) The String/Piano Chamber Music Ensemble features small chamber groups—strings only or strings with ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In a new Android ad, a pianist plays two ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...

If any single piece epitomises the beauty and the hypnotic power of Morton Feldman's final works, it is Piano and String Quartet, composed in 1985, just two years before his death. Performances ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Ervín Schulhoff, Composer Roland Kluttig, Conductor Berlin German Symphony Orchestra Frank-Immo Zichner, Piano Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Ensemble ...