Released as the long-anticipated encore to his avant-garde debut, Rotational Templates (New Focus, 2011), Travis Reuter's Quintet Music is a masterpiece of musical sorcery, brimming with bold ...

The piano quintet, in its most common configuration of piano plus string quartet, is an exalted form of chamber music which composers have typically tried just once. Why there are so few examples is a ...

Founded in 1992, the La Moine Brass Quintet (LBQ) is the resident faculty brass quintet of the Western Illinois University School of Music. Dedicated to excellence in performance, pedagogy, and ...

Founded in 1966, the Camerata Woodwind Quintet was the first chamber music ensemble in residence at Western Illinois University. Over the past half century, the group has presented performances and ...

This season’s chamber music series at Samueli Theater opened Tuesday night with a concert that felt genuinely significant. The adventurous and bravura pianist Marc-André Hamelin and the Pacifica ...

In 1964, Miles Davis responded to free jazz by enlisting a group of untried talents who would challenge, rather than flatter, his remarkable trumpet sound. It was a gamble that paid off ... It's hard ...

Intensity. There's no more appropriate word to describe Robert Schumann. Everything in his life seemed to be done with nothing less than total commitment, from his unrelenting pursuit of the love of ...

Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

The Subaru Telescope has added another dimension of information about one of the most-studied of all compact galaxy groups — Stephan’s Quintet. Located within the borders of the constellation Pegasus, ...

Thomas Adès's Piano Quintet, composed in 2000 for the Arditti Quartet, proves just as baffling on disc as it has always seemed to me in live performance. It is, by all accounts, immensely challenging ...