One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

The repertoire for string quartet was rich before Bela Bartok took up the genre in the first decade of the 20th century. But the Hungarian composer stretched tradition in every direction, creating six ...

There are occasional moments in Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1 when the gloom lifts, when the densely woven musical lines pause momentarily for a spot of pure, consonant sunniness. In the string ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Tesla Quartet continues A Bartók Journey, an exploration of the ...

It’s been just over a year since Bing Concert Hall opened at Stanford University. It’s a grand and beautiful place, but its acoustics are variable. To this listener, music sounds best at Bing when ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Guest speakers and experts include Dr. Dániel Péter Biró, Professor of ...

Anyone who encountered the Marmen Quartet in a superb performance of Robert Simpson’s First Quartet at a Proms chamber recital in 2021 will know that they are an ensemble with which to reckon, amply ...

Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are nearly universally regarded as a summit of 20th-century chamber music. Their prestige can spill over to those ensembles that play these challenging works ...

Takács Quartet has long been a staple at Aspen Music Festival and School, and on March 6 it returns to Harris Concert Hall with a program featuring Beethoven and Bartók. “Harris Hall is one of our ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...