In the late 1970s, American composer Morton Feldman began writing exceptionally lengthy compositions. Not only did these works push the boundaries of traditional concert duration, but more importantly ...

Daniel Kellogg, who teaches composition at the University of Colorado, loves the string quartet. Some of history's greatest composers wrote their most extraordinary music for two violins, a viola and ...

If just one thing can be confirmed from these compelling Tiny Desk performances by the Calidore String Quartet, it should be that the centuries-old formula – two violins, a viola and a cello – is ...

Grażyna Bacewicz treated violin and other string instruments with a special attention, a consequence of her violin studies under Józef Jarzębski in Warsaw and under André Touret and Karl Flesch in ...

James Ehnes has released more than 30 discs since 2000, making a major mark in significant swathes of the concerto repertoire including the Elgar, the two Bartóks and Prokofievs, the Tchaikovsky, ...

The Australian String Quartet has scored something of a coup in bringing together the world’s only known quartet of instruments by legendary Italian luthier Giovanni Guadagnini. The acquisition was ...

Within the world of classical music the string quartet holds a special high ground. Goethe is remembered for his description of listening to a quartet as being like hearing four intelligent people ...

One reason that Washington D.C., not otherwise the most fertile ground for culture, has long been one of the greatest chamber music towns in the world was the presence of not one, but two! famous and ...

With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...