Hamelin is suitably edgy in the opening piano soliloquy, suggesting an underlying angst which is more subtly rendered by Argerich yet higher in voltage than the rival Hyperion recording led by pianist ...

It is largely a study in textures, starting and ending with the ominous sound of a low piano stroke enhanced by a cello pizzicato. Like the tolling of a bell, it introduces what the composer thinks of ...

The DaPonte String Quartet will perform at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Ellsworth on Friday, July 31, at 7 p.m.

Two recent performances of Franz Schubert’s sublime String Quintet in C Major provided an opportunity to test a common presumption in the classical-music business: that older performers invariably ...