Several of Vancouver’s classical music organizations are exploring the trend toward focused miniseries. (I shy away from the term “binge-listening,” but it’s certainly expressive enough). In the next ...

Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...

Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets trace a creative path from youthful vigor to dread of death, tensely combining along the way pathos with caustic comedy, folk melodies with modern angularities ...

String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op.49: 1. Moderato String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op.49: 2. Moderato String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op.49: 3. Allegro molto String ...

Ravinia had its “Million-Dollar Trio” in 1950 when Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and Artur Rubinstein joined forces to play chamber music there. By the same token, Symphony Center on Saturday ...

The Carduccis maintained astonishing intensity throughout the complete cycle of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets – performed in a single day Most ensembles gung-ho enough to attempt a complete cycle ...

The Alexander String Quartet will complete its two-year survey of the complete cycle of the 15 string quartets composed by Russian/Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich in the next few months, with ...

Next Friday, the Lafayette String Quartet, who have been artists-in-residence in the University of Victoria’s School of Music since 1991, will launch what will surely be the classical music event of ...

James Ehnes has released more than 30 discs since 2000, making a major mark in significant swathes of the concerto repertoire including the Elgar, the two Bartóks and Prokofievs, the Tchaikovsky, ...

Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.