The group’s new recording of G major quartet is strikingly different from their intense 1997 recording, while the Haydnesque B flat is a model of good manners The Takács have recorded the G major ...

Originally all members of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Concentus Musicus, the Austrian-based Quatuor Mosaïques were true pioneers in period-instrument performances of the 18th- and early 19th-century string ...

Following on from the Fitzwilliam’s recording of Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden Quartets on Divine Art comes this new release of the Quartettsatz and the G major Quartet. Enterprisingly ...

THE Czech group, the Wihan Quartet, having moved from their complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle on to the string quartets of Dvorak, now turn their attention to Schubert with a fascinating disc of ...

String Quartet No. 14, 'Death and the Maiden' Quatuor Van Kuijk Franz Schubert, Composer The slow movement of Death and the Maiden is more impressive still. There’s the evocatively wheezy organ-like ...

Jane Jones choses a featured work that unites two of Schubert's extraordinary talents. Schubert's String Quartet No.14 in D minor brings together two of the composer's extraordinary talents. Schubert ...

On Nov. 12, the Jupiter String Quartet gave a concert in Foellinger Great Hall, offering a wonderful program of string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, as well as a quartet by ...

Schubert’s compositions became more expansive towards the end of his short life, and it was Schumann who famously praised the “heavenly length” of the composer’s final symphony. His final string ...

The Wihan Quartet open Schubert's last string quartet with a strong emphasis on its monumentality. They are sure and steady, and sometimes broaden their slowish tempo even further. The 22-minute- long ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...