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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Germany’s Auryn Quartet, whose recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets were called “the set to beat” by a reviewer for Gramophone, returns to Bates College to finish its three-year survey ...

Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published CDs with contemporary music for the local market. That is when I first heard Górecki’s ...

Bartók’s six string quartets are arguably the most important contribution to the medium after Beethoven, and they plot his evolution as a composer more completely than any other group of his works. 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 ...

The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet's Beethoven string quartet cycle was recorded between 1998 and 2011. The recordings cover a change of personnel (of violin and viola, in 2007), and the group's ...

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 ...

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 ...