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A chamber music competition may not be the most glamorous of music competitions, but the Osaka event has the reputation of picking the talents of the future.

Crisp programming from Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw as a four year Doppelgänger project pairing late Schubert with contemporary works enjoys a strong start.

Mozartian lightness and wit, dark beauty from Berg and melodious angst from Schubert: the Tetzlaff show us three very different sides of the Viennese string quartet

Now in its third season, this chamber music festival satisfies Cleveland's appetite for summer chamber music with imaginative programming and venues.

A battle has been raging among the audiences of San Francisco concerts, and the conflict came to a head Sunday night at the Nourse Theatre. There were jeers and hisses and contempt lobbed into the air. But it was not the Juilliard String Quartet they were angry with. It was each other. The Juilliard was busy breathing life into one of Beethoven’s lesser works, his String Quartet No. 2.

Caught completely unawares – hearing a group I wasn’t familiar with, and on a Monday evening at that – I ended up seeing the Artemis Quartet give the best performance of any kind that I’ve experienced in quite a while.