Both the quintet and the sextet are substantial works, each lasting over half an hour, and both marked important milestones in Dvorak's career. The quintet, completed in 1875, was the work in which he ...

The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble is back with Antonin Dvorak's String Sextet in A, Op. 48. As the musicians explain, it has in it the flavor of the Czech lament, or "Dumky" ...

If musical composition is a mathematical enterprise (and it is surely more than that), then six is a threshold number for some very great composers. A string sextet signals a transition to ...

Our violinists are Joseph Silverstein and Ida Kavafian, with violists Toby Appel and Paul Neubauer and cellists Fred Sherry and Ronald Thomas in a performance of Dvorak's String Sextet, Op. 48 at ...

It was Brahms who brought the string sextet back to life for his era. But whereas his two essays in the genre were youthful works, both Dvorak and Tchaikovsky attempted a string sextet in the latter ...

Between 1884 and 1896, Dvorák visited Britain nine times – with enormous benefit both to himself and to musical life on these shores. The platforms offered by London's conductors and concert venues ...

Dvorak at Twilight is being hosted by Shropshire Music Trust at the Maidment Hall, Shrewsbury, at 6pm on January 17. Kate Hogwood, director of Shropshire Music Trust, said: "After a memorable ...

A concert beginning with a Dvorak string quintet and ending with a Brahms string sextet, with nothing in between, can seem more a matter of numerology than of piquant planning. But if Sunday afternoon ...