Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For their first major project since the coronavirus outbreak, the Miró Quartet ...

Comprised of violinist Christopher Otto, violinist Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK's The Complete String Quartets features eight John Zorn quartets, ...

Now in its 19th year, South Korea’s leading string quartet, Novus Quartet, continues its ambitious musical journey with the release of a new album, "Brahms: The Complete String Quartets." The group’s ...

There’s a famous photograph of Dvorák seated amid a group of Czech composers in 1885, with a young man standing behind him – Bohuslav Foerster (1859-1951). Listening to the five string quartets and ...

In the spring of 2016, the British recording company Chandos, with the help of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's Polska Music programme, released an album containing every string quartet by Grażyna ...

Germany’s Auryn Quartet, whose recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets were called “the set to beat” by a reviewer for Gramophone, returns to Bates College to finish its three-year survey ...

Less than a year after the Lutosławski Quartet released its recording of Grażyna Bacewicz’s seven quartets on Naxos, here is a rival from the Silesian Quartet at a similar price. Which to choose? The ...

Bartók’s six string quartets are arguably the most important contribution to the medium after Beethoven, and they plot his evolution as a composer more completely than any other group of his works. Of ...

Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published CDs with contemporary music for the local market. That is when I first heard Górecki’s ...

Zemlinsky wrote to Schoenberg that “a great artist…must respect the boundaries of beauty, even if he extends them far further than hitherto”. That seems an apt description for his own string quartets.

It seems only yesterday that the Pacifica Quartet burst on the scene, yet the youthful ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary this season with debuts in Japan and in London’s Wigmore Hall–and by ...