Back in 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston hired Shirley Hunt to play a special centennial event to commemorate a large donation of historical instruments by a museum trustee. Hunt, a Boston-based ...

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

This musician realised that with the right bow, the Bach Cello Suite No.1 could come to life in a wonderful way on the double bass... Since Bach composed his Cello Suites in the early 1700s, they have ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is one of the ironies of the chamber music repertoire that some of the most popular works are performed ...

Amedeo Baldovino could have panicked. The ship that the cellist was on had caught fire between Uruguay and Argentina, causing him and the other two members of the Trieste Piano Trio to jump into the ...