CDElgar's large-scale rhetorical works are now familiar to most, but his chamber music deserves to be better known. These expansive three-movement pieces are late works, elegiac and deeply personal. The Quartet centers on a tenderly intimate slow...

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The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble gives a bracing, warmly expressive account of the Mendelssohn Octet. The playing is polished, the ensemble is tight, and the style and scope of the interpretation are truly symphonic, as...

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