A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to a succession of student ensembles playing Beethoven’s Op 18 No 5. I hadn’t realised how an experience ...

String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 : I. Allegro con brio String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 : II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 : III. Scherzo ...

The presentation of this imminent release from the Allegri String Quartet needs a bit of clarification. First, however, it features fine performances of three of Beethoven's six opus 18 Quartets, the ...

The Dover Quartet, which holds residencies at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and Curtis Institute of Music in ...

ROCKPORT — A frequent complaint about classical music is its museum-like character, its veneration of the past at the expense of new creations. Whether you find that charge damning, inaccurate, or ...

The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...

Soloist-led string quartets on disc stretch from the Rose, Busch and Paganini Quartets (the latter led by the brilliant Polish violinist Henri Temianka) to the (Thomas) Zehetmair and Chiaroscuro ...