This quartet combines a glorious selection of blonde beards and moustaches and eyelashes and floppy fringes with playing that ...

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...

The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky ...

The Danish String Quartet, which this season celebrates its 20th anniversary, isn’t the sort of group that toots its own horn, if you’ll pardon the expression. Beyond their abundant qualities on stage ...

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases. c2.10pm The music writer, novelist, and opera librettist ...

When you hear the words “string quartet,” what images comes to mind? Stone-faced, tuxedo-clad, clean-shaven musicians, methodically performing the music of long-dead composers, perhaps? Meet Brooklyn ...

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Tom Service surveys the 13 extraordinary string quartets of Elizabeth Maconchy - the greatest 20th-century British composer you've probably never heard of. Show more "For me, the best music is an ...

When in 1917 Karol Szymanowski started to work on his first Kwartet smyczkowy/String Quartet, he had already composed some important pieces like the III Symfonia Pieśń o nocy/ Symphony no.3 Song of ...