Other than the fact that all three works were written in the 20th century for a standard string trio, there seems little in common between the pieces here. Schoenberg's Trio is one of his greatest ...
Hundreds of people flooded into Bing Concert Hall on June 26 for a captivating hour of classical music at the St. Lawrence String Quartet’s second Midday Masters concert this summer. Featuring ...
Ernö Dohnányi (1877-1960), who along with Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók dominated Hungarian musical life in the first half of the 20th century, ended his life in enforced exile in Florida. Musically, ...
Placed second by the Aviv Quartet, which in 2010 boasted a Russian/Israeli, Belgian/Israeli and Canadian line-up, the First String Quartet comes across as the work of an astonishingly assured but ...
Modigliani Quartet: (L-R) Philippe Bernhard, Laurent Marfaing, François Kieffer, and Loïc Rio. Courtesy of the artists’ website. As you probably know and have been celebrating ’round the Festivus pole ...
Market Square Concerts' 33 rd year of presenting chamber music begins this weekend with a concert featuring the string quartet that won the coveted 2013 Cleveland Quartet award, the Ariel Quartet.
As you'd expect from instrumentalists of this pedigree, much of the playing on this disc is of the highest class, yet the final impression is one of slight disappointment. François Leleux's playing in ...
The Nash Ensemble dig into Dohnányi’s Serenade (1902) with gusto, relishing the music’s myriad felicities. If they don’t quite match the exhilarating élan of the 1941 RCA account with Heifetz, ...
In 1963, the Bartok Quartet, founded as the Komlos Quartet in 1957 Budapest, changed its name to honor Hungary's most famous composer, Bela Bartok. But on Tuesday evening at the Hungarian Embassy, the ...