And no string quartet since Haydn’s Opus 20 set has been as radiantly “Sun”-soaked as Riley’s “Sun Rings.” It is, then, with this profound peer into the night sky to understand the ...

It was pretty exciting. Haydn wrote the “Sun” Quartets in 1772. He was 40. He had invented the medium 20 years earlier and already had written 22 quartets before reaching Opus 20. He was not a ...

"Around string players, it's a misty goal, like climbing Mount Everest. Everybody aspires to it." Violinist and violist Anthony Martin is talking about performing all 68 of Joseph Haydn's ...

804, Op. 29; and Mendelssohn's in E-flat, Op. 44, No. 3. For Haydn’s fourth quartet of Opus 20 (the “Sun” quartets), the popular label “Sturm und Drang” tells the whole story.

In one way or another, most of the works the Emerson String Quartet played Saturday at the National Museum of Natural History continued this year's commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach's death 2 ...

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 ...

Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists begin their live programme with the fourth of Haydn's Sun Quartets. It was this collection that defined the nature of the string quartet for over 100 years.

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted ...

Opening the concert, one of the more familiar Haydn string quartets — in F major, Op. 77, No. 2 — found the composer in ...

Don't miss the WORLD PREMIERE of Alexandra du Bois' String Quartet No. 6, commissioned especially for the inaugural installment of CQ's Haydn: Dialogues project! Haydn: Dialogues is an ambitious ...

When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that ...