In the lead-up to the Beethoven anniversary year, the Quatuor Ébène gives a complete Beethoven quartet cycle in Tokyo as part ...

When we finally see the return of concerts, shared experiences by full audiences, everyone together, the moment will be less for fireworks than for thanksgiving. Let us begin, then, with Beethoven as ...

It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

PETERBOROUGH - The Borromeo String Quartet continues its performances of the complete Beethoven string quartets with a concert in Bass Hall at the Monadnock Center for History & Culture at 7:30 p.m.

The Takacs Quartet. Left to right: Károly Schranz, second violin; Geraldine Walther, viola; András Fejer, cello; Edward Dusinberre, first violin. When Ludwig van Beethoven unveiled his Seventh String ...

Beethoven is the first composer that most string quartets turn to when they set out on an extended journey. His works in the genre are the zenith of creative accomplishment and expressive sagacity, ...

The numbering may suggest otherwise but Op 18 No 3 was the first string quartet Beethoven composed. One theory for the change of order is that this D major work was too strange, too full of struggles ...

Editor’s note: Lawrence Stomberg, professor of music, has written a more detailed description of Beethoven’s career and his string quartets, which can be read here on the Department of Music’s website ...

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Here is the second release in a major studio cycle launched earlier in this, the Doric’s 25th year and intended to conclude in time for the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death. Significant ...

The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary year is an important one. They choose not to proceed set by set through ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...