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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It’s been just over a year since Bing Concert Hall opened at Stanford University. It’s a grand and beautiful place, but its acoustics are variable. To this listener, music sounds best at Bing when ...

The Boston-based Borromeo String Quartet has had a long, fruitful association with the Library of Congress, just short of “quartet-in-residence,” which came to a peak Friday with a spectacular ...

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The Bartok Quartet at Pick-Staiger Hall: The Bartok Quartet, now marking its 40th anniversary, is a leading exponent of the Central European style of string playing. Its performances tend to be warm, ...

The Jerusalem Quartet made its Seattle debut Thursday night with a reputation as one of the more stellar groups to have emerged in the past couple of decades. It’s safe to say the quartet lived up to ...

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 ...

Crushed wheaties were uncertainly unknown in 1883 in the little town in Hungary where Bartók was born, which at that time was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was prodigiously gifted, and in his 20s ...