The Emerson String Quartet is arguably the best string quartet in the world. One thing that makes its programs special is that it never merely samples standard chamber-music literature. Each program ...

String Quartet No. 8, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 5 Béla Bartók, Composer Hungarian Quartet String Quartet No. 9, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet ...

Chamber music enthusiasts have had much to cheer about this fall, as have IU Jacobs School students with that professional aim. We, the fans, and those students have the benefit of a new presence on ...

As string quartets go, this one has done a lot. Recorded with Belle and Sebastian and fellow indie-rock darlings Lucius. Shared the stage with Father John Misty and Semisonic. Appeared on the “Late ...

The JACK Quartet of New York City has been championing string quartet music of the 20th and 21st centuries since its founding in 2005. "There’s just so many great string quartets that perform the ...

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 Daedalus Quartet will premiere a new work by UC Davis Department of Music Chair Laurie San Martin as well as pieces by doctoral music composition students in two concerts next weekend. San ...

The Fab Four of classical music are to be no more. The Emerson String Quartet are calling it quits, their last Boston gig coming Jan. 22 at Jordan Hall. It might be a stretch to call them the Beatles ...

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 ...

Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 ...

While conservative-minded critics found Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets harsh and ‘difficult’, the wider public was enthusiastic. No 4, in the quintessential Beethoven key of C minor, quickly became a ...