However, these are all coupled quite differently: the Calliope set offering a middle- and late-period quartet together. Of the complete sets, however, the Quartetto Italiano can be confidently ...

Soloist-led string quartets on disc stretch from the Rose ... forgetting perhaps that this is not ‘late’ Beethoven – although the late quartets are frequently lightened by humorous episodes – but the ...

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

The large, active crowd flowing into the Fox Theater on Sunday afternoon might well have been taken for a group of football ...

Today's programme is presented by Tom McKinney. With its enigmatic changes of mood, Beethoven’s late String Quartet in B flat stands among the great peaks of musical Romanticism. Jörg Widmann ...

and a full audience in St Peter’s Church were treated to a programme of string quartets by Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, ...

Beethoven and Schubert, composers who defined the string quartet genre in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Since its ...