It’s not even 249 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth — Dec. 16, 1770 — yet programmatic celebrations of his 250th anniversary have already begun. Beethoven’s symphonies, sonatas and concertos ...

How string quartets engage with the musical challenges and opportunities of performing ‘old’ four-part music – whether Purcell’s Fantasias or The Art of Fugue – depends largely on how a perception of ...

Carya String Quartet presents Meditations on Bach, featuring 10 new Bach chorales and 10 new works of art by the artists of Archway Gallery. The event will be be released daily, March 22-31, on Carya ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This is the third volume of the Danish String Quartet's ongoing Prism series, ...

Prepare to feel completely inadequate: this string quartet are all aged between 6 and 10 years old, and they can knock out a mean Bach concerto. Ah, the mature and refined work of J.S. Bach. Something ...

Jan 28, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Add to Calendar 28-01-2024 15:00 28-01-2024 17:00 America/Toronto Valkyrie String Quartet “Bach to the Future” From the most memorable classical music to movie scores ...

Big boxes abound among recent classical CD releases and this is a great time to catch up on some of your favorites, plus some rarities. “Emerson String Quartet: Mendelssohn Quartets” (Deutsche ...

There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...

The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...

The “avatar of ‘post-classical’ music—the virtuosic string quartet ETHEL (The New Yorker)” and legendary bassist Ron Carter join forces for an unforgettable classical-jazz mashup performance at Zankel ...