In many ways the Amadeus Quartet was the leading string quartet of the LP era. They made their first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1951 and continued to record for the label almost up to their ...

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, ...

(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, ...

(3) String Quartets, 'Apponyi II', Movements: No. 1 in C Joseph Haydn, Composer Takács Quartet (3) String Quartets, 'Apponyi II', Movements: No. 2 in F Takács Quartet Joseph Haydn, Composer (3) String ...

"They are some of our very favourite pieces and represent Haydn at the height of his success and compositional skill." write the Maxwell Quartet of Haydn's opus 74. Following on from their releases of ...

That great 18th-century musical observer Charles Burney responded to Haydn's Op 76 quartets by describing them as being "full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects". The historically informed ...

The London Haydn Quartet are working their way through their eponymous composer's string quartets slowly and chronologically; Hyperion released the Op 9 set in 2007, while those of Op 17 came out two ...

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.

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...