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.

After a long absence — since early 2020 when the specter of pandemia intervened, forcing the cancellation of live performances worldwide — the Jerusalem Quartet performed at the Leo Rich Theater this ...

This summer, Chamber Music Northwest celebrates the 200th anniversaries of two indispensable and very different composers: Franz Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn. The son of a wheelwright, Haydn ...

The Angeles String Quartet makes a move toward international prominence with the release next week of a 21-CD set of the complete Haydn string quartets on a major label (Philips). It’s an event ...

The members of the Emerson String Quartet, which returned on Tuesday night to Samueli Theater for its annual visit, play together as four equals. There’s not a retiring sort between them, and to hear ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.

(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Edinburgh Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Edinburgh Quartet Sergey Prokofiev, Composer String Quartet No. 8 Dmitri ...