The LiveARTS String Quartet will perform works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schumann at the Franklin Historical Museum.

Two prodigious composers who lived half a century apart are featured by the Utah Symphony string quartet in this week's online, 30-minute On Demand chamber concert stream. Movements from Mozart and ...

The Tinalley String Quartet aspires to be the first Australian quartet to record the complete catalogue of string quartets by the great romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn. The first of three ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

Written late in his brief life, Felix Mendelssohn wasn't satisfied with his String Quintet No. 2 from 1845. He said, "Though not an art work in the highest sense, it is still an exercise in forms and ...

Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both accolades seem apt to the A major String Quintet, a youthful miracle to set ...

A year before the end of his extraordinarily productive life, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a brief, existential question on the score of the final movement of his last completed major work: “Muss es ...

Penetrating playing of three distinct works from the mighty Mendelssohn. Album of the Weekend, 19-20 April 2014. Among the many good String Quartets currently on the scene, the Berlin-based Artemis ...

Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the other an outpouring of anguish after his sister Fanny’s death, are, for me, among ...

Bringing attention to a neglected aspect of the composer’s work, this recording shows these quintets are one of his finest achievements, full of lyricism and power With the exception of a handful of ...

Max Bruch's String Quintet in E flat was one of three major works composed in the years before his death in 1920. It was not performed until 2008, and this is its first recording. Bruch uses Mozart's ...