It is hard enough to compete for attention in a city that is literally overflowing with worthy classical music events of every shape and size, but the Ancora String Quartet also deals with the ...

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.

ne can’t honestly say that the Pro Arte Quartet‘s centennial season has been overhyped. After all, sports teams and political turmoil typically dominate the headlines and water cooler talk around the ...

When Elizabeth Maconchy began her first string quartet in 1932, Vaughan Williams was in the ascendant, and Benjamin Britten had barely begun to make his mark. By the time she completed No 13, in 1984, ...

A new boxed set of string quartets by Wadada Leo Smith, an anchor of American experimental music, reveals his sustained engagement with the form. By Seth Colter Walls The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith ...