WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

In many ways the Amadeus Quartet was the leading string quartet of the LP era. They made their first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1951 and continued to record for the label almost up to their ...

In its recitals at Wigmore Hall the Doric String Quartet has shown an affinity for Haydn. The set of six quartets, Op.20, written when the composer was 40, catch him in the white heat of experiment, ...

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...

The young ensemble plays Haydn, Kui Dong and Schumann in this concert from Barcelona.

(3) String Quartets, 'Apponyi II', Movements: No. 1 in C Joseph Haydn, Composer Takács Quartet (3) String Quartets, 'Apponyi II', Movements: No. 2 in F Takács Quartet Joseph Haydn, Composer (3) String ...

The motto of the Modigliani Quartet, founded in Paris in 2003, is taken from the artist whose name they borrowed: "Your true duty is to save your dream." Haydn deserves nothing less. The father of the ...

The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...

Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...

In their debut recording the Maxwell Quartet takes an innovative approach pairing each of Haydn's Op. 71 quartets with a tune, or set of traditional tunes, from the ensemble’s homeland of Scotland.

String Quartet No. 14 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Hagen Qt String Quartet No. 15 Hagen Qt Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer String Quartet No. 16 Wolfgang ...