When you hear the term “chamber music,” think “string quartets” because most chamber music series consist of about 80 percent string quartet concerts. That might explain why there are so many fine ...

Jupiter String Quartet will release UNDREAMED SHORES, featuring world premiere recordings by contemporary composers. The ...

A new boxed set of string quartets by Wadada Leo Smith, an anchor of American experimental music, reveals his sustained engagement with the form. By Seth Colter Walls The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith ...

The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

The iconic American composer Elliott Carter turns 100 this year. To celebrate, Da Camera took a deep breath and decided to present all five Carter string quartets with the Pacifica Quartet as ...

If the name Rued Langgaard means nothing to you, you're in good - or at least plentiful - company. Born in 1893, the Danish composer was a stranger even to his contemporaries, his music scorned and ...

Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson is reimagining songs like “Aqualung,” “Living in the Past,” “Bungle in the Jungle” and “A Christmas Song” as classical music compositions in a new LP, The String Quartets, ...

Although the Boston Symphony Orchestra doesn’t begin its Tanglewood season until next weekend, the Tanglewood Music Center, its summer academy for emerging professional musicians, is already active.

Mendelssohn's music doesn't get nearly enough respect. Sure, he's regularly listed among the Romantic masters, but often with a condescending asterisk suggesting that his music is just a little too ...