This classical music season will be remembered in part as an era of goodbyes for long-running chamber music ensembles, including Chicago’s Vermeer Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio. Add the Alban Berg ...

Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite has always seemed an intensely personal work, a string quartet larded with autobiographical allusions, which appeared the most likely explanation for the quotations from ...

WELL-performed and perfectly formed, this recital by the Alban Berg Quartet was an object lesson in how these things should be done. In the programming as much as in the playing itself, the quartet ...

The Paris-based Quatuor Diotima mark their 20th anniversary with a clutch of new recordings. The centrepiece is this very fine set devoted to the Second Viennese School, which is perhaps the best ...

The Tetzlaff Quartet, formed in 1994, is comprised of Christian Tetzlaff as first violinist, Elisabeth Kufferath as second violinist, Hanna Weinmeister as violist, and Tanja Tetzlaff as cellist. On ...

The Alban Berg Quartett occupies a near-legendary position among string quartets. Their technical fluency, the beauty of their playing, the harmony of their interpretation -- have left critics ...

The Baalbek International Festival taking place in the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek, home of some of the world’s best preserved Roman temples, kicked off Friday with a chamber music concert by the ...

String Quartet No. 14, 'Death and the Maiden' Franz Schubert, Composer Novus Quartet It’s a convincing and imposing vision of the quartet on its own terms, albeit compromised a little by the leader’s ...

After more than three decades on the scene, the Alban Berg Quartet rightly belongs in chamber music’s pantheon. The musicians excel in the classical canon, often coming up with compelling ...

This was a concert with a thesis: to illustrate "how Webern's mesmerising temporal compression was the natural outcome of Haydn's well-honed instincts for structural balance and Brahms' polyphonic ...