WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

The musical meditations on Jesus' last words (actually, statements) are challenging for both performers and listeners. Haydn himself expressed worries in trying to fulfill the unusual commission for ...

The Auryn Quartet at the WGBH Studio in Boston. How do you transform four good players into an exquisite string quartet? Breathe. That's what the members of the Cologne-based Auryn Quartet told me ...

What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

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 ...

The Angeles String Quartet makes a move toward international prominence with the release next week of a 21-CD set of the complete Haydn string quartets on a major label (Philips). It’s an event ...

The members of the Emerson String Quartet, which returned on Tuesday night to Samueli Theater for its annual visit, play together as four equals. There’s not a retiring sort between them, and to hear ...

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 California Festival ended on Sunday. The inaugural festival’s website boasted more than 180 recent compositions performed by 100 statewide organizations since November 3. Among the festival’s ...