These days, the string quartet as an ensemble is a tried and true form of chamber music, but it’s only within the past three ...
Too broke to buy a viola? Don’t let that stop you from making beautiful music. Sometimes, playing in a string quartet can get repetitive. Here’s how you can mix things up a bit. Violist Efdal Altun ...
Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...
London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...
In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...
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The Dallas Chamber Music Society presented the Viano Quartet — (from left) violinists Hao Zhou and Lucy Wang, cellist Tate Zawadiuk and violist Aiden Kane — at Southern Methodist University's Caruth ...
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 ...
The six string quartets of Haydn’s Op 33 include two of his most popular – the ones nicknamed the Joke and the Bird, justifying his claim that the works were written “in a completely new and special ...