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The operatic focus was on Otello and Capriccio, but Enrique Mazzola held back the LPO's star turn with Dvořák’s overture as a thrilling opener. 

The players demonstrated again the unity of an impromptu ensemble, although made up of instrumentalists that have played numerous times together. 

Alisa Weilerstein and Trondheim Soloists have an eye on the calories in three great Romantic string sextets by Richard Strauss, Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky.

Renée Fleming assumes the role of the Countess is Capriccio as part of an all-Strauss program at Symphony Hall. 

A rare and compelling performance of Beethoven's string quintet was the centrepiece of another instalment in the Nash Ensemble's traversal of German Romantic composers.

A gorgeous programme of Wagner, Strauss and Schoenberg and fragments in sextet arrangements

The last of the renowned ‘Soviet school’ returns to Sydney to play Mozart, where "every note had its own significance and direction".

Regarded as one of the best young string quartets around today, the Quatuor Ebène have made a name for themselves with their homogeneity of sound, in equal parts vibrant and mellifluous, and the powerful immediacy of their playing.

The Nash Ensembles' "Echoes of Romanticism" series at the Wigmore Hall, of which this concert was a part, is not really an exploration of romanticism as such, but rather a charting of the rise and fall of Teutonic music between Mozart and Schoenberg.

Top-class orchestras have top-class musicians, and top-class musicians have legions of fans. If not legions, certainly a platoon or two: the Wigmore Hall was packed last night as the Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra took to the stage to perform Mozart’s Horn Quintet in E flat, Strauss’s Sextet for strings from ‘Capriccio’ and Schubert’s divine String Quintet in C.

Avec Victor Julien-Laferrière venu remplacer Bruno Delepelaire initialement invité, le Quatuor Ébène a parfois semblé chercher ses marques, malgré de nombreux passages formidablement accomplis.

En compagnie de Miguel da Silva et Gary Hoffman, le jeune Rolston Quartet a fait mieux que formuler une promesse au public parisien, interprétant notamment une formidable Nuit transfigurée.