The Cuban quartet makes its Music of the Americas debut with a program featuring music by Mozart, Brouwer and Cuban composers ...

In our weekly Must-Have Mozart segment, Mozart authority Nicolas Kenyon joins Fred to talk about a Mozart String Quartet, K. 465, the so-called "Dissonance" Quartet. That title refers to something at ...

The Newport String Project will present the third weekend of its Newport County Concert Series on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at Jamestown Arts Center and Sunday, Feb. 8, at 3 p.m. at Trinity Church’s ...

When I first heard the Verus String Quartet, it was at the ARD International Music Competition in 2008, where the then-two year old ensemble had impressed me throughout – especially with their ...

The Jerusalem Quartet adopts what you might call a full-on approach to Mozart. The tone is luscious and anything but vibrato shy. The speeds are unpressured, and the players like to convey the way ...

When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that Stein ...

The second half of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of Western classical music’s most perfect form – the string quartet. And the quartets written first by Haydn, then by Mozart, then by ...