She commented to an interviewer that what mattered to her most was neither well-paid concert appearances nor playing in large halls, but rather to be involved in things that are interesting for what ...

Lucky the performers (and the listeners) who have Schubert’s two late piano trios before them. It is hard to go wrong with this uplifting music. The selling point of this latest disc is that the trio ...

Daniel Sepec (violin), Andreas Staier (piano) Harmonia Mundi HMC 902048 **** Schumann's later works have always been dogged with suggestions of fading creativity, notions predicated on the mental ...

The name of the Trio Staier/Sepec/Queyras might not trip off the tongue, but it does at least tell you who is involved: the fortepianist Andreas Staier, violinist Daniel Sepec, and cellist Jean-Guihen ...

Beethoven's own violin has been used in a recording for the first time, according to the Beethoven Foundation. It was played by German violinist Daniel Sepec on a CD of the composer's violin and piano ...

The Arcanto Quartet are what you might call a state-of-the- art, 21st-century string quartet. It’s members (Antje Weithaas, Tabea Zimmermann, Daniel Sepec and Jean-Guihen Queyras) are all soloists in ...

The name of the Arcanto Quartet might not yet be universally familiar. In fact, this seems to have been its London debut. But anybody who keeps abreast of today's gifted young musicians will recognise ...