On Friday evening, the legendary Takács Quartet will once again grace the BroadStage after a sold-out appearance in 2022. This time around, the string quartet’s program comes as part of the California ...

ALTHOUGH the Perth Festival, which opens this weekend, has long since stretched its artistic boundaries because of public pressure and debate within the festival executive itself, the core of the ...

Back in the 1950s, four Los Angeles musicians were widely acclaimed as the finest performers of chamber music in America. They called themselves the Hollywood String Quartet, because they spent their ...

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In recognition of its 50th anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently the subject of an in-depth profile by The New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács ...

It is unusual to end a concert with a Mozart string quartet, but after the Carter quartet, I suspect the sounds of Mozart's Quartet No. 21 brought sighs of relief to some members of the audience. The ...

What would you consider the 20 most harrowing minutes of music ever composed? If we’re talking about one single, brief work from beginning to end, there may be no ...