Chamber music revives Doheny Mansion, Sierra Madre Playhouse

A vintage postcard shows palm trees in front of a large, ornate home

Summer is the season when chamber music, that most intimate of musical genres, meets the great outdoors. At America’s destination festivals, you can find chambers by sea (La Jolla SummerFest), in the desert (Santa Fe […]

Black Country, New Road: Live at Bush Hall review – magical resurgence by this odd little chamber orchestra | Black Country, New Road

The artwork for Live at Bush Hall.

Having already changed frontman once when they formed out of previous band Nervous Conditions, UK indie troupe Black Country, New Road have regrouped again after Isaac Wood left to focus on his mental health in […]

Mette Henriette: Drifting review – chamber trio’s delicate steps | Music

Mette Henriette’s Drifting.

The Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette seems to have become the quintessential ECM Records artist. Her second album features all the hallmarks of Manfred Eicher’s label: beautifully recorded low-volume acoustic music located somewhere equidistant from jazz, […]