The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

When you hear the term “chamber music,” think “string quartets” because most chamber music series consist of about 80 percent string quartet concerts. That might explain why there are so many fine ...

The Paris-based group’s first disc is a wonderfully detailed recording of Brahms quartets that at times might benefit from a more muscular edge Quatuor Agate owe their name to Brahms – taking it from ...

Amazon mp3: $9.5 | Amazon CD: ~$17 | ArkivMusic: $20 | Qobuz: £10 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 The String Quartets of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (*1946) are manifold works of considerable, eerie ...

New releases from the Emersons, the Arod Quartet and Quartetto di Cremona; and at home with Spitalfields Music Robert Schumann, who suffered mood swings and periods of severe mental instability, wrote ...

Steve Reich’s Different Trains remains an exemplary example of how to integrate live musicians with pre-recorded sound, the string quartet echoing precisely a series of speech samples and train noises ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. The 29th-annual edition of ...

You can enjoy performances of Tchaikovsky, Janacek and Haydn by some of the world's best string quartets: The Pavel Haas, St. Lawrence and Brentano on Carnegie Hall Live tonight beginning at 8 pm on ...

Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.

The Grammy-nominated Enso String Quartet puts the "class" in this episode of Classical Classroom. We discuss where string quartets come from, why the instruments in a quartet go together so well, what ...

The Danish String Quartet is one of the most widely acclaimed chamber groups at the moment — although, in the interest of full disclosure, we should tell you that ...