Celebrations marking the centennial of a composer’s birth or death are a popular device for festival programming, providing a useful hook for an in-depth look at an artist’s life and works. If not the ...

The exceptional intimacy required of a classical string quartet requires hard work and the right chemistry between four sensitive musicians before it can bear fruitful results. Happily, this is the ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LEWISTON — Bates College will present a program of Haydn, Barber and Dvorak ...

Unfamiliar with the Zemlinksy's music, I found his String Quartet No. 1 a welcome revelation. But the musicians' onstage bonhomie and vivid engagement with the audience, along with their tremendous ...

London audiences are lucky to have the Skampa Quartet as a more-or-less permanent fixture, primarily at the Wigmore Hall where it has given a number of memorable concerts. Now in its 11th year, it ...

When the Calidore String Quartet took to the stage of St. Francis Auditorium last Sunday, in a recital presented by Santa Fe Pro Musica, the second violinist announced that there would be a small ...

DVORAK: String Quartet in F major (‘American’), Op. 96; String Quartet in A- flat major, Op. 105; Bagatelles, Op. 47. Takacs Quartet. London 430 077. — String ...