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.

The Auryn Quartet at the WGBH Studio in Boston. How do you transform four good players into an exquisite string quartet? Breathe. That's what the members of the Cologne-based Auryn Quartet told me ...

The Dallas Chamber Music Society presented the Viano Quartet — (from left) violinists Hao Zhou and Lucy Wang, cellist Tate Zawadiuk and violist Aiden Kane — at Southern Methodist University's Caruth ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | The Leipzig String Quartet By Steve Smith Anyone as prolific, pragmatic and busy as Haydn could hardly afford the luxury of dwelling on ...

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The “Seven Last Words of Christ” is often considered to be Haydn”s darkest and most profound work. Any ensemble that tackles the piece has their work cut out for it consisting of long, solemn ...

The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...