Young string quartets abound. Talented musicians meet at conservatory, form a friendship and musical connection with one another, and yet another regular foursome is established. The sad truth is that ...

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Over the past four decades, the Arditti Quartet have collaborated with almost all the great composers of our time, many of whom, from Elliott Carter to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi to ...

On Thursday March 12, the Jupiter String Quartet played their first concert of 2026 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The ensemble debuted its new violinist, Dr. Mélanie Clapiès, in a ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

Three substantial instrumental works from the 1990s by Brian Ferneyhough are interspersed with a couple of miniatures, the In Nomine a 3 and the Streichtrio. All the music is typically dense and ...

There are two kinds of people: those who have never heard of Sergey Taneyev and those who can’t get enough of him. Taneyev, as Tchaikovsky’s pupil and Scriabin’s teacher, was part of the great lineage ...