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Contemporary programming at this year's festival brings a sensitive social issue close to home, culminating in Judith Markovich's “Oh, my son…” 

Intrepid chamber musicians braved wild weather to deliver a stirring performance of Schubert's String Quintet in C major, alongside early works from Prokofiev and Debussy.

The Paris-based Quatuor Modigliani are joined by special guests for an evening of Schubert quintets in Évian-les-Bains. 

A dramatic setting in Davos was the backdrop to both a premiere of an compelling work recently commissioned by the Davos Festival and a Schubert masterpiece.

Schubert’s String Quintet was certainly a crowd-puller at this concert, as Kings Place's Cello Unwrapped series continues. 

Alice Neary and the Elias Quartet display the full emotional range in a captivating performance of Schubert's String Quintet to close the BBC Proms Chamber Music series at Cadogan Hall.

Two of chamber music's most monumental works given powerfully physical and visceral performances by the Quatuor Ébène and Gautier Capuçon.

The sun is out and the musical migration has begun. Many metropolis music venues decide practically to shut up shop for the summer, and the concert junkie needs to uproot and search out top classical music at one of the summer festivals that spring up seasonally.

In one of Europe’s hottest capitals (that day), a sizeable Edinburgh crowd gathered in the shade of the Dovecot Studios for this season’s final RSNO chamber concert.

The Tokyo String Quartet played a kind of “meta-goodbye” concert this Saturday evening at 92Y. The performance, their last at this venue before the quartet is disbanded, featured three great composers’ own farewells, the final works written for string chamber ensembles by Schubert, Haydn, and Bartók.

A full house at St George’s was spoilt with some seriously fantastic music in this concert. String quartets don’t come much better than the Takács Quartet. Versatile, passionate, and technically very accurate, there was a real quality of care that went into their performance.

It's not always that Schoenberg is out-weirded in a concert programme. More often, his is the eyebrow-raiser, the tougher music on display, which takes more effort to enjoy.

Schubert’s deeply contemplative String Quintet was a bold but worthy choice for the first Late Night Prom of the season. It is rare for a string quartet (in this case augmented by an extra cellist) to grace the main stage of the Proms, although chamber music is well represented in the Proms Chamber Music series.

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.

Le quatuor et le violoncelliste ont proposé une interprétation légendaire du formidable Quintette en ut de Schubert, après une incursion originale chez Boccherini.

Deux cas de Covid-19 ont obligé les Quatuors Belcea et Ébène à revoir leur programme quelques heures avant leur entrée en scène, ce qui n'a en rien gâté un concert légendaire.

Ein unvergesslicher Kammermusikabend auf großer Bühne mit Starbesetzung.

Dans la salle des concerts de la Cité de la Musique, le Quatuor Danel a marqué les esprits par son engagement, non sans susciter des réserves.

À Deauville, le Quatuor Hermès invitait le violoncelliste Yan Levionnois dans un mémorable Quintette de Schubert. Guillaume Vincent a livré une interprétation sensible de trois numéros des Années de pèlerinage de Liszt.

Qui n'a pas rêvé d'un retour triomphal des Hagen dans le Quintette à deux violoncelles de Schubert, chasse gardée de Heinrich Schiff avant sa disparition ? C'était chose faite mercredi dernier au Gstaad Menuhin Festival.

Jan Talich porte courageusement le lourd héritage de gloire qu'a laissé son père. Ce soir malheureusement, il n'est resté que la lie du son magique des Talich d'antan. Dans ce déluge de couacs, d'iniquités et d'à-peu-près, la musique est passée à la trappe.

Une soirée exceptionnelle aux côtés du quatuor Ébène, rejoint par François Salque, avec des œuvres aussi incontournables que différentes.