These are wonderful performances. The Mandelring Quartet don’t overplay the savagery and shocks - their approach is lyrical, sane and effortlessly musical. They can deploy the big guns when necessary ...

The Second Quartet (2006-07) is a meditation on Haydn, written without a metrically aligned ‘master’ score. The idea, Finnissy says, is that individual parts should ‘drift slightly apart’, a strategy ...

WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a fascination with and commitment to playing on gut rather than wire strings and ...

(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Edinburgh Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Edinburgh Quartet Sergey Prokofiev, Composer String Quartet No. 8 Dmitri ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...