In the 1960s my mother put up with a lot of dreadful music. She bought me a trumpet and insisted I play it for an hour every day. She endured my wobbly scales, arpeggios and Al Hirt impersonations ...

In 2004 the Takács Quartet completed their critically acclaimed Beethoven cycle with the six late quartets. Beloved of musicians and audiences alike, these works represent the culmination of Beethoven ...

BEETHOVEN! THE LATE QUARTETS The New Zealand String Quartet celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012 with a special project, BEETHOVEN!, a complete cycle of Beethoven’s sixteen String Quartets in six ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On January 24, 2025, Signum Classics will release BEETHOVEN: The Early ...

Chamber music may be intimate in scope, but it can be a huge draw when the artistic stars align. The magnets at Tuesday's Cleveland Chamber Music Society concert were the Juilliard String Quartet and ...

The Danish String Quartet is in residency at The La Jolla Music Society from November 16 through November 23. They are presenting five concerts as a part of their Prism project. The players in the ...

The line of cars expecting to enter the underground parking of the Colburn School was long and stationary. A Beethoven concert was to begin in 10 minutes. It took another frustratingly full 25 minutes ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Modern living forced me to grab a movement or two at a time, while commuting, cooking dinner and putting away laundry. By Daniel J.

There comes a time in the life of most string quartets when, for better or worse, Beethoven must be confronted. For the acclaimed Belcea Quartet (named after its first violinist Corina Belcea), that ...

Almost 15 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet — they were in their 20s at the time and still called themselves the “Young” Danish — said in an interview that they would need to become more ...