Contrasting sets from Amsterdam’s Dudok Quartet and the London Haydn Quartet prove illuminating. And Inside Music with Lucy Crowe Some 21 years separate the composition of two sets of Haydn string ...

(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 4 in B flat Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 5 in G, 'How do you do?' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 6 in D ...

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 ...

If you are unfamiliar with Haydn's string quartets, this is a good place to start. If, on the other hand, you already know the great man’s chamber music, you will find this CD irresistible. The ...

Franz Joseph Haydn is revered by music lovers as the Father of the Symphony, and indeed he was the first figure to achieve greatness in that genre. But about the time he began writing symphonies, he ...

The Music: Haydn’s six Op.20 String Quartets were written in the productive year 1772 and called the ‘Sun’ after the publisher Hummel’s trademark. Beethoven modelled his Op.18 set on them and Brahms ...

(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Edinburgh Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Edinburgh Quartet Sergey Prokofiev, Composer String Quartet No. 8 Dmitri ...

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ABC ...

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...

Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.

Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.