If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

Why should Beethoven’s string quartets have come to represent the pinnacle of achievement in western classical music? After all, this is a modest, intimate format involving just four players, better ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Endless invention, and a vision of things to come. Beethoven's last two string quartets in his early ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The third and fourth concerts in the Goldner String Quartet Beethoven cycle ticked off another two Opus 18s, the last of the Razumovsky ...

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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 ...

In the 1960s my mother put up with a lot of dreadful music. She bought me a trumpet and insisted I play it for an hour every day. She endured my wobbly scales, arpeggios and Al Hirt impersonations ...

The Budapest String Quartet has always been my standard-bearer for chamber music. I grew up listening to their recordings, and especially admired not only their gorgeous sound, but also the uncanny ...

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When we finally see the return of concerts, shared experiences by full audiences, everyone together, the moment will be less for fireworks than for thanksgiving. Let us begin, then, with Beethoven as ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The fifth concert in this six-concert series opened with Beethoven's last completed work, the String Quartet in F major Op. 135. After ...