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Broadly speaking, chamber music is any ensemble music suited to a small room rather than to a large concert hall. Chamber ensembles range from two to eight or nine musicians, within families of string, wind, brass, and even percussion instruments, or combining diverse instruments. The most characteristic form is the string quartet (two violins, viola, and cello), perfected by Haydn. Chamber music of the Romantic era came mostly from composers who extended the forms they inherited from Mozart and Beethoven. Perhaps the greatest 19th century composer of chamber music was Brahms, whose depth of musical thought influenced even his most experimental successors. Chamber music in the 20th century showed composers making each piece of music into a miniature sound world of its own in a medium that would display what they were doing with maximum clarity. More new works are written today for chamber ensembles than for orchestra or the stage.
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| Title/Composer | Performer | Stream |
|---|---|---|
| Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 | Eroica Trio | |
| Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 | Martha Argerich / Gidon Kremer / Mischa Maisky | |
| Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 | Henryk Szeryng | |
| Piano Quintet in A major, B. 155 (Op. 81) (once listed as Op. 77) | Takács String Quartet / Andreas Haefliger | |
| Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major, D. 956 (Op. posth. 163) | Emerson String Quartet / Mstislav Rostropovich | |
| Clarinet Quintet in A major ("Stadler"), K. 581 | Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble | |
| Verklärte Nacht, for string sextet, Op. 4 | Hollywood String Quartet | |
| Octet for strings in E flat major, Op. 20 | Hausmusik London | |
| Altri canti d'amor, dramatic madrigal for 6 voices, 2 violins & 4 violas (from Book 8), SV 146 | Consort of Musicke / Anthony Rooley | |
| Sonata for violin & piano in A major, FWV 8 | Kyung-Wha Chung / Osian Ellis / Radu Lupu / Melos Ensemble of London |
