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 ...

In other words, this is music that contains multitudes – open to limitless interpretative possibilities. The very packaging of these releases from the Zaïde and the period-instrument London Haydn ...

(6) String Quartets, Movements: F sharp minor Joseph Haydn, Composer Lindsay Qt (6) String Quartets, Movements: F, 'Dream' Joseph Haydn, Composer Lindsay Qt (6) String Quartets, Movements: D, 'Frog' ...

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.

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 ...

The British viola player James Boyd, versatile in all repertoire, founded the London Haydn Quartet in 2001 out of a passion for Haydn’s quartet masterpieces and a desire to play them in historically ...

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 ...

When Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) arrived in England for the first time in January 1791, he had with him his newly composed string quartets of Op 64. The impresario and violinist Johann Peter Salomon ...

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 ...

A disc of 21 mazurkas, far from concentrating on too narrow a spectrum, only goes to show the variety of emotion and poetic expression that Chopin embodied in these sublime pieces. That impression is ...