Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For their first major project since the coronavirus outbreak, the Miró Quartet ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This series offers a rare opportunity for Houston audiences to hear Beethoven's ...

With his sixteen string quartets, Beethoven forged the backbone of this repertoire. The six quartets Opus 18 show the composer’s mastery of the classical form. In contrast, the five middle quartets ...

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 fifth concert in this six-concert series opened with Beethoven's last completed work, the String Quartet in F major Op. 135. After the cataclysmic power of the Grosse Fugue, Op. 133, this work ...

String Quartet No. 2 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Danel Quartet String Quartet Movement Danel Quartet Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer String Quartet No. 3 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer ...

Beethoven has been a lifelong source of inspiration for David Matthews, so it was natural for him to take a bagatelle by his hero as the starting point for his own monumental String Quartet No 11, a ...

Dmitry Shostakovich’s string quartets can easily entice any author into an abyss of abstract poetic language. And so do the recordings of these deeply personal and very moving pieces. I have always ...

These musicians came together in 1978 as students of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The quartet's members perfected their skills during master classes lead by the members of ...

Over the past four decades, the Arditti Quartet have collaborated with almost all the great composers of our time, many of whom, from Elliott Carter to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi to ...

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.