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The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky ...

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 ...

This quartet combines a glorious selection of blonde beards and moustaches and eyelashes and floppy fringes with playing that ...

The sounds coming from Strings Theory Trio, when they play as part of the Advent Library Concert Series on Nov. 13, won’t be what fans of “everyday” classical string trios will be expecting. In fact, ...

Belinda Niling Stohner was always told the concert hall was the best place for classical music. She didn’t believe it. Yes, you have the acoustic design, the heavy velvet curtains, the audience seated ...

When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...

Many performers spend their entire life unravelling issues such as how Beethoven’s undiagnosed personality disorder affected his dramatic dynamic and harmonic shifts or how the death of Bach's wife ...

What’s in a string quartet? The members of Enso tell all. Or…some. They tell a good deal, let’s say. The Enso String Quartet is Maureen Nelson (violin), Ken Hamao (violin), Richard Belcher (cello), ...

Was the famous Hungarian composer the forefather of bands like Rush and Yes? The Chiara String Quartet breaks it down. The celebrated classical music composer Béla Bartók was really into folk music. I ...

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases. c2.10pm The music writer, novelist, and opera librettist ...