Vitamin String Quartet will make you forget everything you thought you knew about string quartets when they take the stage at ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

A new boxed set of string quartets by Wadada Leo Smith, an anchor of American experimental music, reveals his sustained engagement with the form. By Seth Colter Walls The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith ...

WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

According to Anderson's official site, the record features him playing flute "on most of the tracks" as well as contributing occasional vocals. "I felt that there were some songs rather special to me ...

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 ...

The Fab Four of classical music are to be no more. The Emerson String Quartet are calling it quits, their last Boston gig coming Jan. 22 at Jordan Hall. It might be a stretch to call them the Beatles ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

Almost any day of the week, you can catch a string quartet performing in New York. In a three-day stretch in mid-January, I saw five concerts by four groups—the JACK Quartet, the Momenta Quartet, the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Bay Citizen By Chloe Veltman String quartets are proliferating in Bay Area art spaces almost as fast as upscale food carts on street corners. Only ...

Inspired by TS Eliot, the young Tippett dreamt of writing four quartets. In fact, he went on to compose five. Three are relatively early, dating from the second world war, two are from his later years ...

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...