The Dover Quartet, which holds residencies at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and Curtis Institute of Music in ...

A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to a succession of student ensembles playing Beethoven’s Op 18 No 5. I hadn’t realised how an experience ...

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 ...

The presentation of this imminent release from the Allegri String Quartet needs a bit of clarification. First, however, it features fine performances of three of Beethoven's six opus 18 Quartets, the ...

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 ...

This upcoming livestreamed series comes on the heels of the ensemble's Beethoven string quartet box set for PENTATONE, which was released earlier this season and praised for "bringing fresh ideas to ...

ROCKPORT — A frequent complaint about classical music is its museum-like character, its veneration of the past at the expense of new creations. Whether you find that charge damning, inaccurate, or ...

The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...