In many ways the Amadeus Quartet was the leading string quartet of the LP era. They made their first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1951 and continued to record for the label almost up to their ...

The London Haydn Quartet are working their way through their eponymous composer's string quartets slowly and chronologically; Hyperion released the Op 9 set in 2007, while those of Op 17 came out two ...

(6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: F minor Emerson Quartet Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Emerson Quartet (3) ...

(6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 1 in G Chiaroscuro (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 2 in D minor, 'Fifths' Chiaroscuro (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 3 in C, ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

A long-lost letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been found in the archives of a prominent French family. Unlike the new piece of Mozart music that recently turned up, this handwritten note, which ...

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If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.

The Doric Quartet, which has already recorded Korngold, Schumann and Schubert for Chandos, has also proved to be an ear-catching Haydn interpreter on its disc of a 2009 Wigmore Hall recital ...

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...