While not explicitly linked, a subtle thread seemed to connect the three contrasting pieces presented by this flagship ensemble of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. Each work represented an artist’s ...

Mendelssohn Octet for Strings The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play ...

The variety of backgrounds of the players on this disc brings a really artistic sense of collaboration to the performance. What it doesn’t honour, though, is our traditional perception of the dourness ...