In late June and early July, Risør attracts a music-loving subset of boat owners to its summer chamber-music festival. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)
When their chamber-music expertise adds the jewel tones of horns and strings, an exquisite art school aesthetic adds dignity to The National's oeuvre of songs about screwing up. ❋ S.X. Rosenstock (2011)
Spare a thought for the figure you see in the background at recitals and chamber-music concerts, humbly turning pages for the pianist. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Alarm Will Sound's "1969" juxtaposes live performances of these songs—including a chamber-music version of "Revolution 9"—with Mr. Berio's arrangements of Beatles songs. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)
The slender Chinese-born pianist's San Francisco performances took place during a residency week that included the Bartók, a chamber-music concert with orchestra members, and a solo recital. ❋ Barbara Jepson (2011)
She also curates an annual chamber-music festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, which she founded in 2002. ❋ Barbara Jepson (2011)
Mr. Alward, who says he has made an effort to expand the festival's chamber-music program, where tickets are sometimes a fraction of the price of opera performances, says that co-productions are necessary for the festival, but that in the future, premiers will all take place here. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)
His 1999 CD of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky piano trios, recorded with Ms. Argerich and violinist Gidon Kremer, a friend from his Riga and Moscow years, remains one of the most admired chamber-music recordings of its time. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)
Transforming Birdland from a nightclub into something like a chamber-music recital hall, the trio offers jazz at its most serious one yearns for a Jon Faddis type to crack a few jokes between tunes, but more than rewards close listening. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)
"That shows that people are ready to use this content in a different way," said Medici's founder and CEO, Herve Boissiere , noting that the intimate format of a piano recital or a chamber-music concert fits the device. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)
"New York doesn't have a European-style chamber-music hall," said Mr. Patuto, who this year secured another $1.1 million in funding from civic sources to reach the $2.3 million mark—sufficient to proceed with plans to occupy the organization's new home. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
If in other repertoire the genial conductor does not always convey a discernible interpretation, his performances nonetheless possess the spontaneity and vitality of chamber-music making. ❋ Barbara Jepson (2011)
Hardy, Nurit Bar-Josef, the concertmaster, and Lambert Orkis, the pianist, are frequent chamber-music partners in the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, and brought a sense of this unity to the performance. ❋ Anne Midgette (2011)
Kent Nagano conducts the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in an expressively molded reading that balances power and chamber-music detail. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The daytime, mostly chamber-music performances at the university's Ted Mann Concert Hall and nighttime events around the Twin Cities made clear the marimba's amazing role in classical and world music. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Beyond that it will cover the chamber-music waterfront, with opening night alone featuring works for two instruments (cello and piano, by Schumann), four instruments (a Haydn string quartet), six instruments (a Glinka sextet) and eight instruments (the octet that Mendelssohn wrote, quite unbelievably, at the age of 16). ❋ Unknown (2010)
