REVIEW Every string quartet worth its rosin plays Haydn. None, though, plays Haydn like the London Haydn Quartet. Where others treat the Classical-period master with deference, these accomplished ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

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.

If you are unfamiliar with Haydn's string quartets, this is a good place to start. If, on the other hand, you already know the great man’s chamber music, you will find this CD irresistible. The ...

Too broke to buy a viola? Don’t let that stop you from making beautiful music. Sometimes, playing in a string quartet can get repetitive. Here’s how you can mix things up a bit. Violist Efdal Altun ...

The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...

The St. Lawrence String Quartet is on a mission to promote the composer who made the string quartet the cornerstone of chamber music. It was the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, back in the 1700s, who ...

In 1997 four young musicians in Geneva founded the Terpsycordes Quartet: Girolamo Bottiglieri (violin), Raya Raytcheva (violin); Caroline Haas (viola); François Grin (cello). The Terpsycordes Quartet ...