There’s a famous photograph of Dvorák seated amid a group of Czech composers in 1885, with a young man standing behind him – Bohuslav Foerster (1859-1951). Listening to the five string quartets and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For their first major project since the coronavirus outbreak, the Miró Quartet ...

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, ...

Germany’s Auryn Quartet, whose recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets were called “the set to beat” by a reviewer for Gramophone, returns to Bates College to finish its three-year survey ...

The album Grażyna Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets recorded by the Silesian String Quartet wins the Gramophone Classical Music Award in the Chamber Music category. The Silesian String Quartet’s ...

Now in its 19th year, South Korea’s leading string quartet, Novus Quartet, continues its ambitious musical journey with the release of a new album, "Brahms: The Complete String Quartets." The group’s ...

Over the past four decades, the Arditti Quartet have collaborated with almost all the great composers of our time, many of whom, from Elliott Carter to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi to ...

In the spring of 2016, the British recording company Chandos, with the help of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's Polska Music programme, released an album containing every string quartet by Grażyna ...

Beethoven has been a lifelong source of inspiration for David Matthews, so it was natural for him to take a bagatelle by his hero as the starting point for his own monumental String Quartet No 11, a ...

Zemlinsky wrote to Schoenberg that “a great artist…must respect the boundaries of beauty, even if he extends them far further than hitherto”. That seems an apt description for his own string quartets.

Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published CDs with contemporary music for the local market. That is when I first heard Górecki’s ...