The instruments mutter and shriek, dissolving the line between noise and music on this authoritative and fascinating disc Helmut Lachenmann is 90 this week, but the event has gone largely unmarked in ...

Quartet Davis joined host Jennifer Hambrick live on Classical 101's Facebook page for a performance and interview. Think you know what a string quartet sounds like? Quartet Davis might have you ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen as our writers and some of our favorite artists share music of intimacy, intensity and joy. In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we ...

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...

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 ...

Colorado has long been a haven for summer classical music festivals, with the Aspen Music Festival as the most prominent and established. True music aficionados are also well aware of how fortunate ...

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: Judith van Driel (violin 1), Marleen Wester (violin 2), Marie-Louise de Jong (viola) & David Faber (cello) The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart ...

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 ...

Comprised of violinist Christopher Otto, violinist Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK's The Complete String Quartets features eight John Zorn quartets, ...

SOME years ago a young violinist asked Pierre Boulez why he had never written a string quartet. ''Because the string quartet is dead,'' Mr. Boulez said. Like most of his notorious death sentences, ...