In the spring of 2016, the British recording company Chandos, with the help of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's Polska Music programme, released an album containing every string quartet by Grażyna ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Dover Quartet, which holds residencies at Northwestern University's Bienen ...

PETERBOROUGH - The Borromeo String Quartet continues its performances of the complete Beethoven string quartets with a concert in Bass Hall at the Monadnock Center for History & Culture at 7:30 p.m.

Given their importance in the quartet literature of the 20th century, there are surprisingly few complete recordings of Shostakovich's 15 string quartets. Even so, this set joins some pretty select ...

There’s a famous photograph of Dvorák seated amid a group of Czech composers in 1885, with a young man standing behind him – Bohuslav Foerster (1859-1951). Listening to the five string quartets and ...

Zemlinsky wrote to Schoenberg that “a great artist…must respect the boundaries of beauty, even if he extends them far further than hitherto”. That seems an apt description for his own string quartets.

Heard together, the differences between Penderecki’s First and Fourth quartets map an epic journey in 20th-century music Krzysztof Penderecki’s four numbered string quartets do not trace the course of ...

IT'S one of the most overworked expressions in the book, but never has the phrase "collectors' item" been more apposite. When the great Tokyo String Quartet retired last year, bowing out after 40 ...

Moving through the stories of many lives told in myriad ways: This is what it feels like to spend time with Steve Reich's three innovative and profound string quartets. It's even more powerful to hear ...

It seems only yesterday that the Pacifica Quartet burst on the scene, yet the youthful ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary this season with debuts in Japan and in London’s Wigmore Hall–and by ...

Nearly everyone has heard at least one of the Bachianas brasileiras by Heitor Villa-Lobos, but that’s where our familiarity with Brazil’s most famous classical composer stops. The Cuarteto ...