In remote mountain schools on Costa Rica’s Caribbean side, children saw brass instruments up close for the first time when Austin Peay State University’s Aurum Sonor Brass Quintet arrived to begin a ...
Led by world-renowned Russian dancer Ksenia Parkhatskaya on vocals and Irish musician-composer David Duffy on bass, “Something Else” is the debut album from their K Quintet project. With more than 150 ...
Michael White is a jazz violinist /composer/educator. He has been fortunate to have played with many legendary jazz giants, such as John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, John Handy, Joe Henderson, ...
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 ...
Klipsch just announced its fifth generation Quintet surround sound speaker system offering newly engineered, significant technological refinements. Complete with four satellite speakers and a ...
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 ...
Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major is linked to death in a way few pieces of music are. The early 19th century Austrian composer was prolific enough to have a large body of work yet died quite ...
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 ...
Elegance, beauty and irrepressible good humour: music from the pen of a 22 year-old prodigy — inspired by the tragi-comic death of a fish! Schubert’s "Trout" Quintet is one of the best loved of all ...