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 ...

No one could accuse the Cuarteto Casals of being reticent in these three of the six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, the works in G: K387, E flat K428 and C K465. They launch into every ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

In even the most distinguished string quartets the interpretative heart-beat and soundworld is dictated by the first violin, and in this case the Elias Quartet has a treasurable talent in Sara ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer In recent years the Mostly Mozart Festival has swung its programming lasso across diverse terrain, rounding up ...