The Guardian

Mullova Ensemble: Transfigured Night review – insights into Schoenberg’s string sextet

A fascinating idea – an evening of music and dance reflecting the poem that was the starting point for Schoenberg’s famous piece alongside an unadorned performance of the work itself – doesn’t quite ...
NPR

Borodin's Sextet for Strings

Borodin's Sextet for StringsWe're on our way to Clemson University in South Carolina for music by Borodin. The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble brought along music by the Russian ...
musicOMH

Borodin – String Quartets 1 and 2; String Sextet (The Lindsays)

The Lindsays have been one of the dominant forces in the string quartet world for the past 25 years or so, and have released superb accounts of quartets by Beethoven, Haydn and Tippett amongst others ...
Colorado Public Radio

Watch: Colorado Chamber Players tackle Brahms’ String Sextet No. 2

The piece became Brahms’ first composition to see a premiere in the New World. An audience at the Mendelssohn Quintet Club in Boston heard the world premiere Oct. 11, 1866, the Boston Chamber Music ...
London Evening Standard

Transfigured Night at Milton Court review: outstanding take on a masterpiece of the string sextet repertoire

Inspired by Richard Dehmel’s scandalous poem of the same name, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is one of the masterpieces of the string sextet repertoire. In Dehmel’s poem, ...
Jazz

Positive / Music for sextet and string quartet

The right choices ? (M. Herr); Pages and chapters (M. Herr); Unexpected encounters (M. Herr); The positive side (M. Herr); I think of you (M. Herr/Judy Niemack); Modules (M. Herr); Chemistry and ...