Chamber Music Journal
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The Chamber Music Journal is published by The Cobbett Association for Chamber Music Research.
It is a quarterly periodical devoted exclusively to non-standard, rare or unknown chamber music of merit. (i.e., not Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms etc.). ISSN 1535 1726. It is considered one of the leading chamber music reference sources in English. It features articles with hard-to-find information that often has been published nowhere else, an example being a 13 part series on the 36 string quartets of the important 19th Century French composer George Onslow.
The chamber music of Borodin, Respighi, Saint-Saëns, the piano trios of Richard Strauss, the chamber music of the Terezin Composers, Joseph Rheinberger, Eric Zeisel, Max Bruch, Willem Pijper, Zdenek Fibich, Glazunov, Edmund Rubbra, Luigi Cherubini, Wilhelm Stenhammar are among the articles which have appeared.
Regular features include a listing of new CDs and also a section entitled Diskology which is devoted to in depth CD reviews. These are not typical record reviews. They are not devoted to the performers or the performance since in most cases there are no other performances of the works being reviewed. Rather, these are reviews about the music and the composer. Sound-bites of the most recent reviews are available. The Chamber Music Journal has been under the general editorship of R.H.R. Silvertrust, President of The Cobbett Association for Chamber Music Research since 1993.
Copies for research are available at the Library of Congress several university music libraries, including those of Yale University, Stanford University, Indiana University, University of Iowa, Lawrence University. It can also be obtained at various public libraries, including the New York Public Library. Although The Chamber Music Journal is not available on newsstands or in book stores, subscriptions can be had by contacting the Cobbett Association directly either on-line, by phone or mail.
