The Emerson String Quartet is arguably the best string quartet in the world. One thing that makes its programs special is that it never merely samples standard chamber-music literature. Each program ...

Bored with standard string quartet offerings, they put on a show that includes music from Radiohead's guitarist Jonny ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

The Alexander String Quartet and music historian Robert Greenberg are on a roll, embarking on Program 4 of their ongoing "Music as a Mirror of Our World" series for San Francisco Performances at 10 ...

The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

Brad Balliett and Doug Balliett — identical twin composers and performers from Massachusetts — have been performing together and collaborating for nearly thirty years. As bassoonist and double bassist ...

On Friday, July 25, 2025, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Miró Quartet will release its newest album, Ginastera String Quartets, on PENTATONE. Celebrating 30 years as an ensemble in 2025, the ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

In the thirty-page booklet that accompanies Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartets Nos. 1-12, the trumpeter & composer devotes a few paragraphs to the subject of inspiration. He traces an irregular line ...

While conservative-minded critics found Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets harsh and ‘difficult’, the wider public was enthusiastic. No 4, in the quintessential Beethoven key of C minor, quickly became a ...

Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 ...