The Marmen Quartet and Chiaroscuro Quartet perform at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival ...

Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor is one of the richest works in the group of six that the composer famously dedicated to Haydn in 1785. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor was written by a ...

Mozart complained that these three quartets – which may or may not have been commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia – were the product of ‘exhausting labour’. You’d never guess it from ...

You might suspect that after more than three decades together, the men of the Emerson String Quartet — violinists Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker, who alternate their chairs, violist Lawrence Dutton ...

A series of concerts devoted to Mozart’s quartets kicks off with an exhilarating exploration of the boundaries of his writing Mozart’s string quartets are core chamber music repertoire. That much is ...

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths (The String Quartet: A History; Thames and Hudson: 1983) on the six ...

Winners of the Wigmore Hall’s prestigious string quartet competition last year, the young French ensemble Quatuor Van Kuijk are currently BBC New Generation Artists, so UK audiences can expect to hear ...

In our weekly Must-Have Mozart segment, Mozart authority Nicolas Kenyon joins Fred to talk about a Mozart String Quartet, K. 465, the so-called "Dissonance" Quartet. That title refers to something at ...

When I first heard the Verus String Quartet, it was at the ARD International Music Competition in 2008, where the then-two year old ensemble had impressed me throughout – especially with their ...

Mozart Group, a string quartet from Poland that offers a humorous take on familiar classical works, will perform May 19-21 in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. The performers in “Mozart Comes to Town” ...