Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Da Camera of Houston presents the internationally acclaimed Elias String Quartet in a two-night program that traces the history of British music. On March 18, the performance will include Fantasias by ...

From 1972-1982, the Purcell String Quartet (PSQ) was the quartet-in-residence at Simon Fraser University. They gave “peripatetic concerts” on campus, contributed to dance and theatre events, and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. No living composer has done more for the string quartet than Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The achievement may seem ...

The internationally acclaimed Elias String Quartet returns with two distinct programs. Over two nights, the Elias Quartet traces the history of British music from Purcell to Britten to esteemed ...

Celebrated cellist Ian Hampton has spent a lifetime on show: with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony, the CBC Vancouver Orchestra and the Purcell String Quartet, which he co-founded ...

The most significant composers," writes the pianist and critic Charles Rosen, "are those who gain the fanatical loyalty of some performers." By that measure, the Quatuor Molinari are making a strong ...

One piece dominated this delightful Sunday morning concert. Because they comprise just four instruments with each possessing its own line, there is a certain feeling of purity that derives from the ...

This concert by that indefatigable 30-year-old outfit the Arditti Quartet was the second event in the three-concert International Benjamin series on the South Bank. It was planned by the even more ...