The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An exceptional account of Bach’s Mass in B minor, traditional and unusual string quartets, and Thomas Adès suites are among the highlights. Julie ...

Big boxes abound among recent classical CD releases and this is a great time to catch up on some of your favorites, plus some rarities. “Emerson String Quartet: Mendelssohn Quartets” (Deutsche ...

Bach, “Testament – Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin performed by Rachel Barton Pine (Avie, two discs). It was 10 days ago that the world could have celebrated one of the great birth ...

Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson is reimagining songs like “Aqualung,” “Living in the Past,” “Bungle in the Jungle” and “A Christmas Song” as classical music compositions in a new LP, The String Quartets, ...