The Fugue String Quartet is all set to celebrate its 25th anniversary in New York when its cellist and senior member Peter (Christopher Walken) announces that after one last performance of Beethoven’s ...
Almost 15 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet — they were in their 20s at the time and still called themselves the “Young” Danish — said in an interview that they would need to become more ...
A Late Quartet's centerpiece--Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131--can be a fool's errand. The marathon composition requires string musicians to play, without pauses, no fewer ...
Feats, farewells and musical treasures in a year of post-pandemic financial pressures. By Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid ...
At one moment, slow and soothing — at the next, eerie and intense. The Jupiter String Quartet seemed to enter a private world together while performing at Foellinger Great Hall in the Krannert Center ...