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.

In many ways the Amadeus Quartet was the leading string quartet of the LP era. They made their first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1951 and continued to record for the label almost up to their ...

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WATERLOO - New York-based Attacca String Quartet will live up to its name Nov. 16 and 17 when it performs the first instalment of a multi-year project entitled Haydn 68, the composer’s complete string ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...

The London Haydn Quartet are working their way through their eponymous composer's string quartets slowly and chronologically; Hyperion released the Op 9 set in 2007, while those of Op 17 came out two ...

Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...

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In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...