Germany’s Auryn Quartet, whose recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets were called “the set to beat” by a reviewer for Gramophone, returns to Bates College to finish its three-year survey ...

The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet, whose credits include a host of prestigious awards and residencies, concludes its complete Beethoven string quartet cycle on Cedille Records with a three-disc set ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

UB may be the only place in the country — or the world, according to Department of Music staff — that presents all 16 Beethoven string quartets annually. The honor this year goes to the ...

For the last two years of his life, Beethoven's world was dark and silent. His health was completely shot. And his emotional state was worse. He'd failed in his relationship with his nephew Karl, and ...

Chamber music may be intimate in scope, but it can be a huge draw when the artistic stars align. The magnets at Tuesday's Cleveland Chamber Music Society concert were the Juilliard String Quartet and ...

We hear one of the most moving pieces in chamber music — the String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, known as the "Serioso" — "Serious" — quartet, by Beethoven. It's played by the Hungarian ensemble ...

Beethoven’s middle-period Op.59 quartets are near-contemporaries of his ‘Eroica’ Symphony and audaciously transfer symphonic ambition to chamber music. The Brodsky Quartet attempts to bring an epic ...

Two acclaimed string quartets will share this season’s presentation of the Department of Music’s Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle. The Escher String Quartet will offer the cycle’s first three ...