With the exception of the well known F major work Op 96, often known as the American Quartet, these are the last four string quartets that Dvorák completed – the E flat Op 51 and C major Op 61 in 1879 ...

Wednesday at the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) was a long haul of repetition, three Ravel quartets and three Brahms quartets. It was also a time for individual standout ...

Trinity Episcopal Church is bringing the Borromeo String Quartet, called by the Chicago Tribune “a remarkably accomplished string quartet, not simply for its high technical polish and refined tone, ...

Here is a superlative disc from the Sacconi Quartet, on their own label, with a treasure trove of top-drawer performances from the rich Bohemian repertoire. I absolutely love their warm, deeply ...

Just when you think you know a composer, along come artists who force you to think again. The program that the Penderecki String Quartet presented Monday for the Rocky River Chamber Music Society at ...

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 ...

What a gorgeous disc! True, it’d be a poor sort of string quartet who couldn’t make your heart melt with the opening phrases of Dvořák’s Op 51 String Quartet. But I’ve rarely felt such a glow of love ...

Brahms supposedly destroyed 20 string quartets before publishing his first. His friend Dvořák took a slightly less ruthless approach. Although Dvořák seems to have withdrawn or disowned both of the ...

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 ...