The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

Earlier today, the award-winning Dover Quartet - hailed by The New Yorker as "the young American string quartet of the moment" - joined me for a live performance and interview on Classical 101. In ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

JACK Quartet (Austin Wulliman and Christopher Otto on the right). Photo by Beowulf Sheehan. “Classical music is relaxing.” “I listen to classical music because it’s soothing.” “I turn on classical ...

"We had two ideas — we had the Mozart, which is typically Mozart in its beauty and lyricism, contrasting with these much more intimate, internal, dark pieces." That's Ross Snyder, founding violinist ...

Sunday. Classical quartets are the rage this season, both at movie theaters, where they are the subject of feature films such as “A Late Quartet,” and in Denver’s performance halls, where touring ...

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 ...

If the name Rued Langgaard means nothing to you, you're in good - or at least plentiful - company. Born in 1893, the Danish composer was a stranger even to his contemporaries, his music scorned and ...

Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.

When you hear the term “chamber music,” think “string quartets” because most chamber music series consist of about 80 percent string quartet concerts. That might explain why there are so many fine ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.