The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...

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 ...

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String Quartet No. 8, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 5 Béla Bartók, Composer Hungarian Quartet String Quartet No. 9, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet ...

1 Watch the Premiere of Next On Stage: Season 6 2 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere Music Mountain, America's longest running summer chamber music festival, continues its 89th season ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jan Grüning, violist for the Ariel Quartet, likens the task of playing all the works Beethoven wrote for string quartets to climbing Mount Everest. At each stopping point along the climb, a different ...