In the spring of 2016, the British recording company Chandos, with the help of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's Polska Music programme, released an album containing every string quartet by Grażyna ...

Over the past four decades, the Arditti Quartet have collaborated with almost all the great composers of our time, many of whom, from Elliott Carter to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi to ...

Now in its 19th year, South Korea’s leading string quartet, Novus Quartet, continues its ambitious musical journey with the release of a new album, "Brahms: The Complete String Quartets." The group’s ...

The Végh Quartet disbanded in 1980, 40 years after violinist Sándor Végh founded the group in Budapest. Based in France after 1945, their reputation grew steadily through the 1950s and 60s, founded ...

Moving through the stories of many lives told in myriad ways: This is what it feels like to spend time with Steve Reich's three innovative and profound string quartets. It's even more powerful to hear ...

The Abel Quartet, like many musicians around the world, faced a pivotal moment at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The members, who were based in Vienna, Austria, returned to their home country, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

John Zorn’s successful career as saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and performer with free-form jazz and experimental improvisational groups such as Masada has sometimes drawn attention ...

Dmitry Shostakovich’s string quartets can easily entice any author into an abyss of abstract poetic language. And so do the recordings of these deeply personal and very moving pieces. I have always ...

Fans of UB’s annual Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle are in for a treat this year. The Pacifica String Quartet, which has demonstrated a passion and commitment for performing complete string ...

To have a woman’s voice from Poland charting the difficult years of the mid-20th century is a valuable testimony. Gražyna Bacewicz, violinist and composer of over 200 works, deserves a wider audience.

The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet's Beethoven string quartet cycle was recorded between 1998 and 2011. The recordings cover a change of personnel (of violin and viola, in 2007), and the group's ...