Inside Chamber Music is a new music education series that Asia Society Hong Kong Center is co-presenting with Premiere Performances. Each Inside Chamber Music evening combines a streamed lecture from ...

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.

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...

When Haydn completed his Six Quartets, Op 50, in 1787, they triggered a Europe-wide bidding war among music publishers. As well they might: this was Haydn’s first full-scale set of quartets since the ...

Four nations, one mission: Alina Ibragimova (Russia) and Pablo Hernán Benedí (Spain), Emilie Hörnlund (Sweden) and Claire Thirion (France) are the Chiaroscuro Quartet. Chiaroscuro - light-dark - is ...

May 13, 2018 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Add to Calendar 13-05-2018 14:00 13-05-2018 15:30 America/Toronto Vaughan String Quartet Concert J. Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No.2 “Fifths” J. Lai: String Quartet No ...

What string quartet has a name starting with "Do," performed a concert with a Haydn Opus 76 and a Beethoven late quartet as first and last works, and features a gorgeous woman playing the viola?

The Brentano String Quartet has been at the forefront of American chamber music for more than three decades, hailed for their ingenuity and interpretative style. The ensemble returns to The 92nd ...

Musical nicknames are good for business. Haydn’s set of six string quartets, Op 33, has had nicknames for the whole set, none of which is very widely used. “Russian”, favoured by BIS, remembers the ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.

WORCESTER - Haydn is among the composers who will be featured when Music Worcester presents the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The chamber ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence at Stanford University.

In 2015 the Castalian String Quartet won 1st Prize and three special awards at the Lyon International Competition, and in 2016 won 3rd Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Sini ...