Too broke to buy a viola? Don’t let that stop you from making beautiful music. Sometimes, playing in a string quartet can get repetitive. Here’s how you can mix things up a bit. Violist Efdal Altun ...

Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ABC ...

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 ...

The St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) has announced the release of two new albums via Phenotypic Recordings — the final ones with co-founder and violinist Geoff Nuttall, who died of pancreatic cancer ...

The Music: Haydn’s six Op.20 String Quartets were written in the productive year 1772 and called the ‘Sun’ after the publisher Hummel’s trademark. Beethoven modelled his Op.18 set on them and Brahms ...

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 ...