The Woodland String Quartet will perform their 42nd annual “Mozart and More” concert at the Scotch Plains Public Library on Thursday, Aug. 16, at 7 p.m. This year’s theme is early music written by ...

Whether you don’t know the difference between a violin and a viola or you can identify a Mozart sonata within the first 30 seconds, classical music can be a soothing and interesting way to spend a ...

The exceptional intimacy required of a classical string quartet requires hard work and the right chemistry between four sensitive musicians before it can bear fruitful results. Happily, this is the ...

The Jupiter String Quartet gave its first local concert of the year Feb. 6 in Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Known to all in Champaign-Urbana, this group is ...

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths (The String Quartet: A History; Thames and Hudson: 1983) on the six ...

When I first heard the Verus String Quartet, it was at the ARD International Music Competition in 2008, where the then-two year old ensemble had impressed me throughout – especially with their ...

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The Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra plays Mozart's String Quartet in D, K. 136. You can almost hear Peter Schickele, alias PDQ Bach, calling this "music for a whole lot of strings." The performance is ...

Feats, farewells and musical treasures in a year of post-pandemic financial pressures. By Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid ...

Mozart is well known for his exploits in the fields of opera, symphony, concerto, mass, chamber and solo music – in fact, just about any classical discipline available at the time was mastered by him, ...