The Juilliard String Quartet, one of the world's great cultural treasures, was honored by The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees with its Lifetime Achievement Award, which acknowledges ...

Dover Quartet: Tribute. Mozart String Quartets K. 589, 590; String Quintet K. 406 (with Michael Tree, 2d viola). Cedille. The Dover Quartet, formed in 2008 by four graduates of the Curtis Institute of ...

The Pavel Haas players share an easy rapport which translates into a profound musicianship, most recently evident in their approach to Shostakovich’s string quartets, finds Richard Bratby For as long ...

The Canadian violinist James Ehnes has his own string quartet for which he’s joined by fellow violinist Amy Schwarz Moretti, viola-player Richard Yongjae O’Neill and cellist Edward Arron, and they’ve ...

The Emerson String Quartet, widely regarded as one of the world's premier chamber music ensembles since its founding in 1976, makes its PENTATONE debut with a recording of Schumann's three string ...

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QuartettodiCremona has been performing Beethoven’s string quartet repertoire regularly since 2014, when they performed the complete Beethoven quartet cycle in Milan. Riding the heels of that concert ...

A new boxed set of string quartets by Wadada Leo Smith, an anchor of American experimental music, reveals his sustained engagement with the form. By Seth Colter Walls The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith ...

In 2004 the Takács Quartet completed their critically acclaimed Beethoven cycle with the six late quartets. Beloved of musicians and audiences alike, these works represent the culmination of Beethoven ...

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Brahms wrote three string quartets – or rather, he wrote three string quartets that he liked enough to let us hear them: we’ll never know how many were burned and abandoned along the way. The ...