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Au sein du week-end de clôture du festival aixois, deux concerts ont joliment mis à l'honneur la jeune génération de la musique de chambre aux côtés de Gil Shaham et Renaud Capuçon.

Pas aidé par la direction emphatique et statique de Myung-whun Chung, le lauréat du Concours Van Cliburn n'a pas su déployer son jeu dans le Concerto de Robert Schumann.

Tout entier soumis au texte déchirant de Schubert, le pianiste laisse à la musique le pouvoir d'émouvoir et brise le cœur des auditeurs après une interprétation d'anthologie.

Le Quatuor Modigliani et Frank Braley se mêlent au timbre de velours de Cyrielle Ndjiki Nya et accompagnent les danseurs Agnès Letestu et Vincent Chaillet dans un pas de deux plein de grâce.

Emerson, l’un des très grands quatuors de ces quarante dernières années, ne serait-il plus que l'ombre de ce qu'il était ? 

Avec ce nouveau concert-spectacle, le Centre de Musique de Chambre et sa clique de jeunes musiciens continuent leur chemin, repeignant noir et blanc des partitions de toutes les couleurs qui leur coulent des doigts.

Geläufiges von Beethoven und Dvořák, wunderbare Entdeckungen von frühem Mahler und seinem Bewunderer Schnittke im Kurhaus Bad Tölz.

At the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, the Takács Quartet collaborates with Marc-André Hamelin in works by Price and Dvořák. 

An evening of Brahms quintets at Wigmore Hall, where the Pavel Haas Quartet are joined by Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl. 

A great chamber music experience, at the end of one of music’s most challenging years.

Two contrasting works from the Nash Ensemble made for a fine evening of the very best quality chamber music at Wigmore Hall, gratefully received in the hall and by many online.

Die Pianistin Elisabeth Leonskaja begleitet das Artemis Quartett bei einem großen Kammermusikabend in München.

There was a palpable sense of communion during a performance bringing these great musicians together at Carnegie Hall for the first time. 

Top notch musicianship from the Schubert Ensemble in their final appearance at King’s Place. 

Joined by pianist Emanuel Ax, the Emerson Quartet performed at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.

Traditional August Bank Holiday weather – steady rain – was reflected in the melancholy programme for this lunchtime Chamber Prom.

The five musicians on stage performed just like a well-oiled machine in Dvořák's Op. 81 Piano Quintet’s devilishly tricky coda.

Stunning Smetana and Dvořák made for a gripping end to a fine concert.

Ensemble 360 present Dvořák, Mozart and Spohr "in the round". 

Das junge Talent Teo Gheorghiu bestach im Palatin Wiesloch gemeinsam mit dem renommierten Carmina Quartett mit einer differenzierten, schlichten Interpretation von Dvořáks Klavierquintett.

The Recontres inédites series is what makes the Verbier Festival famous among aficionados. The title translates – roughly – as “Unprecedented Meetings”, and that is certainly what the concerts represent: world-class soloists brought together on minimal but far from non-existent rehearsal time to play chamber music.

The Dallas-area series Chamber Music International presented its second program of the season this Friday and Saturday evening. (This review is of the second concert, at St Barnabas Presbyterian Church in Richardson, Texas.

In what would turn out to be a concert of two very distinct halves, the Elias Quartet impressed in the cosy confines of Wigmore Hall. After a full ‘daily grind’, arriving at this cocoon of a hall – where outside noise is absent, save for the occasional underground rumble – felt like a real treat. Here was a chance to sink into some cosy chamber music to wash over the listener – or maybe not.

I went to this concert primarily so as to be able to hear Frederick Stocken’s new work, Archangels. The performance of that work was preceded by the Choir of St Mary’s Woodford singing sixteenth century church music, conducted by Mr Stocken.