Why should Beethoven’s string quartets have come to represent the pinnacle of achievement in western classical music? After all, this is a modest, intimate format involving just four players, better ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet, whose credits include a host of prestigious ...

Geraldine Walther, the revered principal violist of the San Francisco Symphony for 30 years until she left in 2005 to assume the viola chair in the renowned Takács Quartet, was on the phone from ...

The Dalí Quartet, a Latin American-inspired but classically trained string quartet, will perform the first half of this season’s Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle at UB. The three concerts will take ...

Before you get all excited, no: the Cypress String Quartet has not reunited. It’s just that we at Classical Classroom have been so busy that we’re a wee bit behind the times. By like…5 months-ish.

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, ...

On April 8-9, the Takács Quartet brought to a rousing close its cycle of the complete Beethoven string quartets. Begun last October, this Beethoven cycle comprised six concerts, all in the excellent ...

“Here, my dear friend, is my last quartet. It will be the last; and indeed it has given me much trouble. For I could not bring myself to compose the last movement… And that is the reason I have ...

The line of cars expecting to enter the underground parking of the Colburn School was long and stationary. A Beethoven concert was to begin in 10 minutes. It took another frustratingly full 25 minutes ...