The day is coming, or so I hope, when the chamber music of Anton Arensky takes its proper place in our concert life. This is music that almost never gets performed, and yet every time a piece of ...

I’m prepared to believe the scholars who assure us that there’s not much to the legacy of the Russian composer Anton Arensky beyond his two piano trios. But it’s hard to hear the heartfelt elegance of ...

It couldn't have been a very hard decision when a certain string quartet consisting of four siblings sat down to come up with a name for themselves. We hear the Ying Quartet play two pieces from a ...

The ASPECT Foundation for Music & Arts presents Taneyev and Arensky: In Tchaikovsky's Shadow on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Bohemian National Hall, part of the foundation's second New ...

Tchaikovsky's death was a severe blow to Russian culture, and his fellow Russian composers, not to mention the larger music world. Another Russian composer, Anton Arensky, responded with music. The ...

Russian composer Anton Arensky dedicated his 1894 Piano Trio No. 1 to a Russian cellist who had died in 1889. In an apparent tribute, Arensky has the cello introduce themes throughout nearly the ...

The Orion Ensemble will showcase its core musicians—Kathryne Pirtle, clarinet; Florentina Ramniceanu, violin; Diana Schmück, piano; and Judy Stone, cello—on the third concert program of its 33rd ...

Lesser-known composers are often defined in relation to their better-known contemporaries. Anton Arensky (1861-1906) tends to be associated with his friend and mentor Tchaikovsky. Arensky became a ...