The period-instrument quartet’s recording of Beethoven’s Ops 74 and 130 offers many rewards Though there’s no shortage of recordings of the Beethoven quartets, versions by groups taking an ...

A movement from a Beethoven composition for a string quartet discarded by the composer has been reconstructed by a musical expert at Manchester University Reuters A movement of a Beethoven string ...

If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...

Volume one of the cycle includes Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets over 2 CDs – on CD 1, String Quartet in F major, Op.18 No.1; String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3; and String Quartet in B-flat ...

This Thursday, Da Camera presents its second concert in their chamber music series this season: Beethoven Perspectives with the London-based Elias String Quartet. For this concert, the group will ...

The Ariel String Quartet has accomplished what few quartets have in the world. On March 29, the ensemble concluded the cycle of Beethoven's 16 quartets, performed in six concerts starting in January.

The Department of Music will open the 2012-13 Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle with concerts by the American String Quartet on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10. Both concerts will take place at 7:30 p.m. in ...