Plenty of trios and quartets exist in the classical-music world. An octet is a rarer bird. On Saturday, an octet with impeccable lineage will land with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber ...
The Mendelssohn Octet will end Monday’s concert in Auer Hall, following two contemporary string quartets, one by Shulamit Ran, her Quartet No. 3, “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory” and Gyorgy Ligeti’s ...
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 Scherzo movement from Felix ...