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 ...

The Canadian violinist James Ehnes has his own string quartet for which he’s joined by fellow violinist Amy Schwarz Moretti, viola-player Richard Yongjae O’Neill and cellist Edward Arron, and they’ve ...

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 ...

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.

Before we hear Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 later, we'll start by listening to some chamber music he was working on at the same time, in the summer of 1810. The Cleveland Quartet plays the third ...