Two gorgeous pianos — built in Vienna in the early 1850s by Ignaz Bösenderfor, the founder of the famed company that still makes exquisite pianos today — are reunited for Context's season-closer.

Context presents Beethoven's Hammerklavier , a concert that will feature the following selections: Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major; ‘Kakadu’ Variations for Strings and Piano; ...

Andrew Greenwald’s [99 Words]: snare-less, bottom head-less, rosin-coated snare drums played with hands. Thomas Meadowcroft’s The Great Knot: wine glasses, recorders, a synth and lots of toys tell the ...

Clara Schumann's heartbreaking trio — considered to be her greatest composition — was written six years after her marriage, when she was 26 and had four children. Perhaps inspired by Clara, Robert ...

French composers of the Baroque Era developed a distinctive and influential musical style of elegance, brilliance and poetic atmosphere. Context presents the Houston recital debut of internationally ...

Context presents Fin-De-Siecle Vienna, a concert that will feature the following selections: Brahms: Sonata in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano; Webern: Two Early Pieces for Cello and Piano; and ...

Beethoven thought that his Waldstein and Appassionata sonatas for solo piano were some of the best he ever wrote. History agrees with him: These famous masterpieces have been studied and worshiped by ...

Many composers wrote musical settings to favorite ballads, tales of adventure, terror and love. CONTEXT presents a wide selection of songs and melodramas by great ...

Hungarian period-instrument star Ildikó Kertész brings her early-19th century flute for a program of rare Romantic gems for flute and piano. Kertész performs and records with Europe's finest ...