While not explicitly linked, a subtle thread seemed to connect the three contrasting pieces presented by this flagship ensemble of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. Each work represented an artist’s ...

The Elias and Emmeline Quartets string quartets let us inside their Manchester rehearsals for a performance of Mendelssohn's amazing Octet. Show more The Elias Quartet join forces with the Emmeline ...

Few have done as much as US conductor Lawrence Foster to champion George Enescu's music outside his native Romania. Purists may be fazed, however, by Foster's latest disc, which presents his own ...

The variety of backgrounds of the players on this disc brings a really artistic sense of collaboration to the performance. What it doesn’t honour, though, is our traditional perception of the dourness ...