When you hear the term “chamber music,” think “string quartets” because most chamber music series consist of about 80 percent string quartet concerts. That might explain why there are so many fine ...
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 ...
Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...
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 ...
A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.
Amazon mp3: $9.5 | Amazon CD: ~$17 | ArkivMusic: $20 | Qobuz: £10 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 The String Quartets of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (*1946) are manifold works of considerable, eerie ...
Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.
The Danish String Quartet is one of the most widely acclaimed chamber groups at the moment — although, in the interest of full disclosure, we should tell you that one member of the quartet is actually ...
Steve Reich’s Different Trains remains an exemplary example of how to integrate live musicians with pre-recorded sound, the string quartet echoing precisely a series of speech samples and train noises ...
'These were the quartets that made us fall in love with the genre': Dudok Quartet Amsterdam on Haydn
The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...
Quick — name a jazz string quartet. Classical string quartets are easy enough, thanks to such well-known names as the Juilliard String Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet and the Guarnieri String ...
If you’re in one of the 63 million (!!!) households that have watched Netflix’s latest hit series, chances are, you’re also already having a love affair with Bridgerton’s soundtrack. And in case you ...
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