Strings

The Takacs Quartet's Beethoven cycle, a decade in the making, was festooned with awards from all corners of the world, and it's the D major quartet from Beethoven's first Op.18 set that lies at...

Just announced as winners of 2009 Classic FM Gramophone Award Recording of the Year, this young French string quartet are fast making a reputation as one of the most exciting, versatile and sought...

The start of a new season of informal trailer concerts profiling some of the most exciting young classical music talent about today, in anticipation of the Park Lane Group Young Artists New Year...

Beethoven took his example for the Op.18 Quartets from Haydn and Mozart, both of whom had established the string quartet as one of the Classical style's principal genres.

At the heart of the second in this pair of Takács programmes is the Razumovsky Quartet No.2.

It was these letters between himself and Kamila that Janáček enshrined in his Intimate Letters Quartet, which is at the heart of the Emerson Quartet's second concert in this series.

The Corinthian Chamber Orchestra performs the core of Bernstein’s last concert, given at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony on August 19, 1990 - Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Britten’s Four...

Beethoven's famous deafness did little to impair his musical mastery. In fact, his late quartets are extraordinary achievements, representing the composer at the pinnacle of his powers.