WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

A disc of 21 mazurkas, far from concentrating on too narrow a spectrum, only goes to show the variety of emotion and poetic expression that Chopin embodied in these sublime pieces. That impression is ...

(6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 1 in G Chiaroscuro (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 2 in D minor, 'Fifths' Chiaroscuro (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 3 in C, ...

(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 4 in B flat Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 5 in G, 'How do you do?' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 6 in D ...

Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

Contrasting sets from Amsterdam’s Dudok Quartet and the London Haydn Quartet prove illuminating. And Inside Music with Lucy Crowe Some 21 years separate the composition of two sets of Haydn string ...

The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...