Musically Speaking

Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) is the unfamiliar name in the middle of our April program. Until a few years ago his name and music were completely unknown to me. My first encounter was while seated in the balcony at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam awaiting the start of what was to be a really splendid concert performed [...]

Our first concert of the new BCMS season begins where chamber music itself began, with music written for private enjoyment by the smallest number of players of different instruments from the same family. More than any other ensemble the string trio, as created and perfected by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, places the viola in an [...]