Szymanowski wrote his String Quartet No. 1 in the autumn of 1917, during one of the most difficult periods of his life, when the revolutionaries and the Soviet communist party escalated their ...

“It makes you feel really alive and free to be able to play a big solo, especially right off the bat,” says Mueller, who ...

Daniel Kellogg, who teaches composition at the University of Colorado, loves the string quartet. Some of history's greatest composers wrote their most extraordinary music for two violins, a viola and ...

Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 ...

Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 ...

The Australian String Quartet presents three works hailing from from all across the string quartet oeuvre. Scarlatti’s shimmering ‘Sonata a Quattro No 4’, written in the early 1700s, is described by ...

Tom Service's quirky take on the world of classical music. Today he explores the most celebrated of chamber ensembles, the string quartet. Show more Why is a chamber ensemble of two violins, viola and ...