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 ...

When you hear the term “chamber music,” think “string quartets” because most chamber music series consist of about 80 percent string quartet concerts. That might explain why there are so many fine ...

The album Grażyna Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets recorded by the Silesian String Quartet wins the Gramophone Classical Music Award in the Chamber Music category. The Silesian String Quartet’s ...

Classical crossovers have taken Hollywood by storm. One of the musical entities leading the charge is Vitamin String Quartet, which returns to Northeast Ohio for a show on Oct. 24 at EJ Thomas Hall in ...

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 ...

What’s in a string quartet? The members of Enso tell all. Or…some. They tell a good deal, let’s say. The Enso String Quartet is Maureen Nelson (violin), Ken Hamao (violin), Richard Belcher (cello), ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

Amazon mp3: $9.5 | Amazon CD: ~$17 | ArkivMusic: $20 | Qobuz: £10 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 The String Quartets of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (*1946) are manifold works of considerable, eerie ...

New releases from the Emersons, the Arod Quartet and Quartetto di Cremona; and at home with Spitalfields Music Robert Schumann, who suffered mood swings and periods of severe mental instability, wrote ...

The Danish String Quartet is one of the most widely acclaimed chamber groups at the moment — although, in the interest of full disclosure, we should tell you that one member of the quartet is actually ...