Chamber Classics

It’s a testament to the power of Bach’s music that this piece has been heard at weddings, in television advertisements, and in films and remains as beloved as ever in the concert hall.

Crespo drew on musical styles from baroque music to jazz and folk music as well as South American popular music and African American spirituals.

With its brooding fanfare of an opening and escalating dance-like energy, Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is brilliantly suited to brass ensemble.

Bernstein fuses elements of jazz, Latin American music, 12-tone composition, popular music and European symphonic music.

Witold Lutosławski was one of the most significant voices in Polish music in the twentieth century.

“The debt to Beethoven is evident in the dramatic opening of the first movement, alongside a lightness of foot that is all Schubert.”

“Boulanger was making the most of student life when she wrote this piece…that exuberance infuses every note.”

Brahms was uncharacteristically pleased with the trio, writing to his publisher, “You have not yet had such a beautiful trio from me and very likely have not published its equal in the last ten years.”

Dora Pejačević is without doubt one of the most significant musical voices of the early twentieth century.

This is a journey piece. About travel. Maybe a long way or at night. Taken to an unfamiliar destination.