One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

Johann Baptist Vanhal is known to have played string quartets with Mozart and Haydn, and honestly there are worse ways into the music history books. But in addition to that biographical side note, ...

Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are nearly universally regarded as a summit of 20th-century chamber music. Their prestige can spill over to those ensembles that play these challenging works ...

The Marmen Quartet and Chiaroscuro Quartet perform at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival ...

String Quartet No 5: Bel Canto Cypress String Quartet Elena Ruehr, Composer String Quartet No 3 Elena Ruehr, Composer Cypress String Quartet String Quartet No 1: Four Pieces for String Quartet Cypress ...

Guest speakers and experts include Dr. Dániel Péter Biró, Professor of Composition at University of Bergen, Norway; Mark Steinberg, first violinist of the Brentano String Quartet; Dániel Hamar, ...

In the universe of chamber music, the six string quartets of Bela Bartok seem to occupy their own planet, one with a gravitational pull perhaps more akin to a white dwarf. One might hear these works ...