Clarice Assad’s NEXUS, which received its New York premiere in the Takács Quartet’s concert Wednesday night in Carnegie’s ...
What makes the programming of this show so alluring is although Mendelssohn was considered a romantic composer and Haydn had emerged from the baroque period, there are so many parallels in the way the ...
(6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 4 in B flat Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 5 in G, 'How do you do?' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 6 in D ...
The Takács Quartet come to the end, as it were, of their slow-burn survey of Haydn’s late quartets, following recordings on Hyperion of Opp 71 and 74 (12/11), which joined a vivid, generous set of Op ...
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 ...
Scottish folk music played alongside works by Haydn and Beethoven? That would be surprising coming from any chamber-music group — unless it’s the Maxwell String Quartet. For the Maxwells, who are ...