WATERLOO - New York-based Attacca String Quartet will live up to its name Nov. 16 and 17 when it performs the first instalment of a multi-year project entitled Haydn 68, the composer’s complete string ...

"They are some of our very favourite pieces and represent Haydn at the height of his success and compositional skill." write the Maxwell Quartet of Haydn's opus 74. Following on from their releases of ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

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Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...

Haydn was the first great composer of string quartets. He effectively put the new medium on the musical map and left a large body of high-quality work for it. But performers and listeners have always ...