Perspective is another word for point of view, and changing that means shifting one’s position in space. With music, which ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

FOR DECADES string-quartet recitals conjured an image of men in tailcoats demurely playing staid classical works in a concert hall. But the Kronos Quartet took to the stage in San Francisco on June ...

As members of one of the world’s leading Bruckner orchestras, violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and cellist Ken Olsen know the 19th century Austrian symphonist better than most. But when the board chair of their ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critics’ Notebook The JACK Quartet and the Danish String Quartet presented new works that nodded to the past and spoke to the present. By Joshua ...

Pairing John Adams' first and only String Quartet (2008) with Beethoven's Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 - his next-to-last, after writing quartets throughout his adult career - was, at the ...

LENOX — Out of one of the darkest eras in human history, the Holocaust, rose some powerful musical performances and compositions that both captivate and haunt today's audiences. "As a composer, I love ...

The high, delicate, exacting art of chamber music has no finer practitioners today than the Budapest String Quartet. Last week, deep in one of their busiest seasons, the Quartet was in Manhattan, ...