Almost 15 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet — they were in their 20s at the time and still called themselves the “Young” Danish — said in an interview that they would need to become more ...

Beethoven's "Late Quartets," No. 12-16 (plus the Große Fuge), were his final major compositions. They were so advanced at the time that they bewildered most and led some to believe that the once great ...

A Late Quartet's centerpiece--Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131--can be a fool's errand. The marathon composition requires string musicians to play, without pauses, no fewer ...

The Elias Quartet ran a year-long Beethoven project about a decade ago, which resulted in an informative website, and a string quartet cycle at the Wigmore Hall, which was released the house label. In ...

Not many string quartet compositions can steal the spotlight when they share a program with Beethoven's intensely expressive Quartet No. 15 in A minor. But that happened April 6 in the Corcoran ...

On Nov. 12, the Jupiter String Quartet gave a concert in Foellinger Great Hall, offering a wonderful program of string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, as well as a quartet by ...