In its recitals at Wigmore Hall the Doric String Quartet has shown an affinity for Haydn. The set of six quartets, Op.20, written when the composer was 40, catch him in the white heat of experiment, ...
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.
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.20, No.3Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.20, No.3 ...
The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...
The Music: Haydn’s six Op.20 String Quartets were written in the productive year 1772 and called the ‘Sun’ after the publisher Hummel’s trademark. Beethoven modelled his Op.18 set on them and Brahms ...
Never underestimate Haydn. Amid all the reams of music he left us his capacity always to have something new to say is remarkable, and never more so than in the adventurous “Sun” Quartets, composed in ...
Saturday 30 April 2005 9:00-13:00 (Radio 3) Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases. Richard Wigmore recommends a version of Haydn's String Quartets, Op 76 from the currently ...
Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.
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