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 age 76.

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...

(6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 4 in B flat, 'Sunrise' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 5 in D Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', ...

Contrasting sets from Amsterdam’s Dudok Quartet and the London Haydn Quartet prove illuminating. And Inside Music with Lucy Crowe Some 21 years separate the composition of two sets of Haydn string ...

In many ways the Amadeus Quartet was the leading string quartet of the LP era. They made their first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1951 and continued to record for the label almost up to their ...

(6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: F minor Emerson Quartet Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Emerson Quartet (3) ...

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...

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 and ...

On Friday, September 7, 2018, the award-winning Tesla Quartet(Ross Snyder & Michelle Lie, violins; Edwin Kaplan, viola; Serafim Smigelskiy, cello) releases its debut album, Haydn, Ravel, and ...

The St. Lawrence String Quartet, an acclaimed Canadian ensemble established in 1989, includes in its 25th-anniversary season a stop this weekend in Santa Fe. The foursome has instigated numerous ...

That great 18th-century musical observer Charles Burney responded to Haydn's Op 76 quartets by describing them as being "full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects". The historically informed ...