You might suspect that after more than three decades together, the men of the Emerson String Quartet — violinists Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker, who alternate their chairs, violist Lawrence Dutton ...

String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 1. Adagio String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 2. Allegro String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 3. Menuetto String Quartet No.1 in G, K.80: 4 ...

No one could accuse the Cuarteto Casals of being reticent in these three of the six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, the works in G: K387, E flat K428 and C K465. They launch into every ...

String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: I. Adagio String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: II. Menuetto String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: III. Andante String Quartet No. 11 ...

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths (The String Quartet: A History; Thames and Hudson: 1983) on the six ...

When I first heard the Verus String Quartet, it was at the ARD International Music Competition in 2008, where the then-two year old ensemble had impressed me throughout – especially with their ...

Mozart is well known for his exploits in the fields of opera, symphony, concerto, mass, chamber and solo music – in fact, just about any classical discipline available at the time was mastered by him, ...

Mozart’s autograph manuscripts reveal he prioritised the practical considerations of performance over compositional authority, according to a musicologist from the University of Sheffield. Mozart’s ...

You might suspect that after more than three decades together, the men of the Emerson String Quartet — violinists Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker, who alternate their chairs, violist Lawrence Dutton ...

The Armida Quartet’s Mozart cycle operates both as an artistic endeavour and as a musicological one. The players are acting as consultants to the new Urtext edition of the 23 quartets for Henle Verlag ...