These days, the string quartet as an ensemble is a tried and true form of chamber music, but it’s only within the past three ...

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.

"Around string players, it's a misty goal, like climbing Mount Everest. Everybody aspires to it." Violinist and violist Anthony Martin is talking about performing all 68 of Joseph Haydn's completed ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...

The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...

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 ...

The Dallas Chamber Music Society presented the Viano Quartet — (from left) violinists Hao Zhou and Lucy Wang, cellist Tate Zawadiuk and violist Aiden Kane — at Southern Methodist University's Caruth ...

Robert Mann, who died at the age of 97 on New Year’s Day, was perhaps the single most important figure in the expansion of the audience for chamber music in the United States and elsewhere over the ...