Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...
(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 1 in B minor Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 3 in C, 'Bird' ...
The California Festival ended on Sunday. The inaugural festival’s website boasted more than 180 recent compositions performed by 100 statewide organizations since November 3. Among the festival’s ...
Musical nicknames are good for business. Haydn’s set of six string quartets, Op 33, has had nicknames for the whole set, none of which is very widely used. “Russian”, favoured by BIS, remembers the ...