The Fab Four of classical music are to be no more. The Emerson String Quartet are calling it quits, their last Boston gig coming Jan. 22 at Jordan Hall. It might be a stretch to call them the Beatles ...

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 ...

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...

According to Anderson's official site, the record features him playing flute "on most of the tracks" as well as contributing occasional vocals. "I felt that there were some songs rather special to me ...

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.

The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

As string quartets go, this one has done a lot. Recorded with Belle and Sebastian and fellow indie-rock darlings Lucius. Shared the stage with Father John Misty and Semisonic. Appeared on the “Late ...

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 ...

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 ...

String quartets are among the hardiest and most adaptable of musical organisms. As mobile as rock bands, in some ways even more so, they can appear, do their thing, and slip away into the night. Small ...

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, ...