One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...
Anyone who encountered the Marmen Quartet in a superb performance of Robert Simpson’s First Quartet at a Proms chamber recital in 2021 will know that they are an ensemble with which to reckon, amply ...
The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Tonight, January 18, Takács Quartet presents quartets numbers 1, 3, and 5, ...
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In October 2013, the Chiara String Quartet performed Bela Bartok’s String Quartets No. 1, 3 and 5 as part of the Hixson-Lied concert series. A month later, the ensemble completed the cycle, playing ...
In the Ragazze’s hands the Second Quartet’s opening anticipates the parallel mysteries at the start of the Third Quartet (I’m now intrigued at the prospect of hearing them play that masterpiece too), ...