Winners of the Bordeaux and Banff International Competitions, the Marmen String has appeared in such venues as Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, and the BBC Proms. Their debut recording for BIS ...

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...

That great 18th-century musical observer Charles Burney responded to Haydn's Op 76 quartets by describing them as being "full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects". The historically informed ...

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.

Inside Chamber Music is a new music education series that Asia Society Hong Kong Center is co-presenting with Premiere Performances. Each Inside Chamber Music evening combines a streamed lecture from ...

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 ...

WHEN Alina Ibragimova last graced York, it was with a pair of concerts presenting Bach’s works for unaccompanied violin, a "dry run" of her triumphant BBC Proms performances days later. Two years have ...

In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...

WORCESTER - Haydn is among the composers who will be featured when Music Worcester presents the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The chamber ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence at Stanford University.

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