Celebrations marking the centennial of a composer’s birth or death are a popular device for festival programming, providing a useful hook for an in-depth look at an artist’s life and works. If not the ...

When I reviewed the Tokyo String Quartet's CD of Brahms Quintets with guest musicians Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu last November, I knew it was the group's penultimate recording. Violinist Kikuei ...

The School of Music’s Oneppo Chamber Music Series brings some of the world’s leading ensembles to one of Yale’s most intimate concert venues. On Tuesday evening, the globally renowned Emerson String ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith Dvorak is the latest composer to seize the collective attention of the Emerson String Quartet, that brightest of stars in ...

The exceptional intimacy required of a classical string quartet requires hard work and the right chemistry between four sensitive musicians before it can bear fruitful results. Happily, this is the ...

The Carpe Diem String Quartet visited the CPR Performance Studio recently and played music by two composers who weave folk melodies into their string quartet writing. The first piece comes from Korine ...

Schulhoff’s brainstorm received a performance of searing intensity and charm by the Penderecki, which was founded in 1986 in Poland at the urging of composer Krzysztof Penderecki (pen-der-ETS-ski).

The Emerson String Quartet proved again on Wednesday night why it is one of the world’s finest chamber ensembles. Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David ...