On January 24, 2025, Signum Classics will release BEETHOVEN: The Early Quartets, the final installment in the Calidore String Quartet's award-winning full Beethoven cycle. The Early Quartets follows ...

The Budapest String Quartet has always been my standard-bearer for chamber music. I grew up listening to their recordings, and especially admired not only their gorgeous sound, but also the uncanny ...

The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...

Since winning first prize at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, Canada's Rolston String Quartet has been swept up in a whirlwind of concerts throughout Austria, Germany, Italy, ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

The Danish String Quartet, which this season celebrates its 20th anniversary, isn’t the sort of group that toots its own horn, if you’ll pardon the expression. Beyond their abundant qualities on stage ...

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases. c2.10pm The music writer, novelist, and opera librettist ...

When you hear the words “string quartet,” what images comes to mind? Stone-faced, tuxedo-clad, clean-shaven musicians, methodically performing the music of long-dead composers, perhaps? Meet Brooklyn ...

The Dirigo Quartet, one of only a handful of permanent string quartets in Maine, will perform at Hammond Hall on Friday, June ...