It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Save for a handful of renegades and visionaries, classical musicians tend to put fidelity to the score close to the top of their priorities. That comes with certain constraints—especially when playing ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to a succession of student ensembles playing Beethoven’s Op 18 No 5. I hadn’t realised how an experience ...

The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet, whose credits include a host of prestigious awards and residencies, concludes its complete Beethoven string quartet cycle on Cedille Records with a three-disc set ...