It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat major Op. 18 No. 6. Budapest String Quartet (Mono, 1952) Sony Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110. Borodin String Quartet ...

Germany’s Auryn Quartet, whose recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets were called “the set to beat” by a reviewer for Gramophone, returns to Bates College to finish its three-year survey ...

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String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: II. Vivace String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: III. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: IV. Der Schwer ...

When you have a sold-out audience, and you’ve run out of concert programs, and they’re shouting “Bravo!” before the musicians have played a single note, you know you’re doing something right. That was ...

Perhaps wary of the shadows of Haydn and Mozart, whose string quartets were of such extraordinary caliber, Beethoven took his time entering the genre. Even after he started, he had second thoughts.

Takács Quartet has long been a staple at Aspen Music Festival and School, and on March 6 it returns to Harris Concert Hall with a program featuring Beethoven and Bartók. “Harris Hall is one of our ...

UB may be the only place in the country — or the world, according to Department of Music staff — that presents all 16 Beethoven string quartets annually. The honor this year goes to the ...

Almost 15 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet – they were in their 20s at the time and still called themselves the “Young” Danish – said in an interview that they would need to become more ...