You might suspect that after more than three decades together, the men of the Emerson String Quartet — violinists Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker, who alternate their chairs, violist Lawrence Dutton ...

Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor is one of the richest works in the group of six that the composer famously dedicated to Haydn in 1785. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor was written by a ...

Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet in C major, so nicknamed because of the clashing harmonies in the slow introduction, takes top billing here, but it is the D minor, also from the “Haydn” set, that leaps ...

Cathy Fuller brings her talents as a pianist and educator to her work at WGBH Radio Boston, producing weekly live classical performances, hosting Classics in the Morning, coordinating programming, and ...

When I first heard the Verus String Quartet, it was at the ARD International Music Competition in 2008, where the then-two year old ensemble had impressed me throughout – especially with their ...

The second half of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of Western classical music’s most perfect form – the string quartet. And the quartets written first by Haydn, then by Mozart, then by ...

Mozart’s autograph manuscripts reveal he prioritised the practical considerations of performance over compositional authority, according to a musicologist from the University of Sheffield. Mozart’s ...