The Danish String Quartet, which this season celebrates its 20th anniversary, isn’t the sort of group that toots its own horn, if you’ll pardon the expression. Beyond their abundant qualities on stage ...
The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...
In the thirty-page booklet that accompanies Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartets Nos. 1-12, the trumpeter & composer devotes a few paragraphs to the subject of inspiration. He traces an irregular line ...
Paradoxically for a composer best known for his microscopic treatment of musical gestures and mastery of short forms, Kurtág ...
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 ...
Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven's Op. 18 string quartets over 2 CDs – on CD 1, String Quartet in F major, Op.18 No.1; String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3; and String Quartet in B-flat ...
The members of the Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet, making their second appearance this season on the Cal Performances lineup, are also in the midst of a three-season-long collaboration with ...
The large, active crowd flowing into the Fox Theater on Sunday afternoon might well have been taken for a group of football fans waiting for the Super Bowl game to start. If they were, though, they ...
Wadada Leo Smith's seven CD boxset String Quartets Nos. 1-12 summons two words, epic and ineffable. The 5½ hours of music chronicle three of his four periods writing for string quartets from 1965 ...