What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.
Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.
The St. Lawrence String Quartet, an acclaimed Canadian ensemble established in 1989, includes in its 25th-anniversary season a stop this weekend in Santa Fe. The foursome has instigated numerous ...
Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.
The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...
The Takács Quartet come to the end, as it were, of their slow-burn survey of Haydn’s late quartets, following recordings on Hyperion of Opp 71 and 74 (12/11), which joined a vivid, generous set of Op ...
The Dallas Chamber Music Society presented the Viano Quartet — (from left) violinists Hao Zhou and Lucy Wang, cellist Tate Zawadiuk and violist Aiden Kane — at Southern Methodist University's Caruth ...
The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...