(MENAFN- Pressat) The secluded venue in North Pembrokeshire hosts the 1st performance of a new String Quintet by renowned Welsh Composer John Metcalf. Nantwen's annual festival always includes a work ...

Coming in at No 3 behind Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s C major String Quintet of 1828 has long been a favourite on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, ...

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 ...

Not everything a great composer writes is always great music. Everyone has a hit rate and these vary from genius to genius. Even by Schubert’s own standards, though, the Adagio from the String Quintet ...

The Candlelit Concert Experience of Destiny's Child: Iconic Reimagined Tribute combines classical string arrangements with thousands of candles to create an intimate, reverent setting for all of ...

As members of one of the world’s leading Bruckner orchestras, violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and cellist Ken Olsen know the 19th century Austrian symphonist better than most. But when the board chair of their ...

A lot of yoga classes included music, but in Pennsylvania, yogis are moving to the performance of a live string quintet and music composed just for yoga practice. There's yoga with baby goats or yoga ...

Time stands still in Schubert’s String Quintet. Abstracted, other-worldly, this is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, its surface stillness made tangible by the Quatuor Ebène and cellist ...

Hyperion already has these works in its catalogue in excellent performances by the New Budapest Quartet and Piers Lane, but these new versions from Stephen Hough and the Takács Quartet strike me as ...