If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

Why should Beethoven’s string quartets have come to represent the pinnacle of achievement in western classical music? After all, this is a modest, intimate format involving just four players, better ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The third and fourth concerts in the Goldner String Quartet Beethoven cycle ticked off another two Opus 18s, the last of the Razumovsky ...

Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The fifth concert in this six-concert series opened with Beethoven's last completed work, the String Quartet in F major Op. 135. After ...

The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...

Just as any real and informed music fan is familiar with the Duke Ellington "Blanton Webster Band," Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959), and Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens recordings, ...

The Ceruti Quartet, the ensemble-in-residence at the University of Memphis’ Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, has lined up some ambitious programming. The group, which has been around for 22 years, is ...

The six string quartets which make up his Op. 18 were composed in Beethoven’s late twenties, and consequently imbued with less of the youthful enthusiasm and optimism one might expect of a composer’s ...