In Charleston, South Carolina, Geoff Nuttal and the St. Lawrence Quartet play Haydn’s classic Emperor Quartet for Scott. Scott Yoo Performs Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata Scott Yoo, host of "Now Hear ...

REVIEW Every string quartet worth its rosin plays Haydn. None, though, plays Haydn like the London Haydn Quartet. Where others treat the Classical-period master with deference, these accomplished ...

In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...

As record packages go, the Angeles Quartet’s set of the complete Haydn quartets is a sweet one. Philips put them on 21 slipcased discs that fit into a single, CD-sized box about 2 inches deep, which ...

WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Conceived by Richard Tognetti, Haydn for Everyone has been an ambitious three-year project from Melbourne Festival to present the ...

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...

Joseph Haydn’s biographers have searched his life for the moment when he conceived the idea of a string quartet. Did he have a grand epiphany of its sonic possibilities? Did he intuit that four ...

A 1789 playbill for a “professional concert” at Hanover Square in London announced a new set of quartets by Joseph Haydn. The composer’s latest quartets, Op.54 and Op.55, three works apiece, were ...

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...