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 ...

None, though, plays Haydn like the London Haydn Quartet ... Representing the so-called "Sun" quartets was Op. 20, No. 2, a masterful work featuring unusual compositional devices such as unison ...

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 ...

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.

He was 77, an old man for the time, but no one who knew him would have called Haydn aged. Energy and resilience marked his life, and a creative drive as unfailing as the sun guaranteed his legacy.

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

If she were to remain with the quartet, the group would certainly continue to grow musically. The program opened with one of the early masterworks of Haydn, his Quartet in D major, Opus 20 ...