Piano trios have cause to be grateful that Brahms’s loyal friend Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) did such a thoroughly professional job arranging the two string sextets for violin, cello and piano.

The Amsterdam Sinfonietta is Holland's only professional string orchestra, and seems to make a speciality of performing works from the chamber-music repertory in expanded versions. The 23-strong group ...

Their own standpoint ranges freely from the tense to the tractable, the rhythm of the music always under control, tone sinewy rather than plush, and instrumental lines consistently in excellent ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is one of the ironies of the chamber music repertoire that some of the most popular works are performed ...

Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...