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 ...

The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) will perform all six of Béla Bartók's string quartets by heart, or from memory, ...

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 ...

Was the famous Hungarian composer the forefather of bands like Rush and Yes? The Chiara String Quartet breaks it down. The celebrated classical music composer Béla Bartók was really into folk music. I ...

The Chiara String Quartet released a recording of Bela Bartok’s string quartets last year. The record, “Bartok By Heart,” performed a neat trick on the Hungarian composer’s work. And it was something ...

In October 2013, the Chiara String Quartet performed Bela Bartok’s String Quartets No. 1, 3 and 5 as part of the Hixson-Lied concert series. A month later, the ensemble completed the cycle, playing ...

String Quartet No. 8, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 5 Béla Bartók, Composer Hungarian Quartet String Quartet No. 9, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet ...

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 ...