It's a considerable coup for Hyperion to sign up the Takacs Quartet. They are currently the greatest string quartet in the world, and their recordings of the Bartok and the Beethoven quartets for ...

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 ...

Best known for their superb interpretation of the six Bartok string quartets, the Takcs quartet has delivered a strong performance in their recently released CD of Schubert”s String Quartet in G major ...

Trinity Episcopal Church is bringing the Borromeo String Quartet, called by the Chicago Tribune “a remarkably accomplished string quartet, not simply for its high technical polish and refined tone, bu ...

For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so clearly how he felt’. I’d question whether Schubert knew that his days ...

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 revered group plays intricate Bartók and passionate Schubert at the Savannah Music Festival. Takacs Quartet: Schubert Meets Bartok (All this week, we're featuring concerts from the ongoing ...

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 ...

Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis, Dr. Anne Hyland, announces the publication of her monograph: Schubert’s String Quartets: the Teleology of Lyric Form which appeared with Cambridge University Press ...

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 ...

In this bittersweet music, Schubert added an extra cello to the standard string quartet, and in the process created a completely new sound for a... Schubert Most Sublime: The String Quintet In C ...