Bored with standard string quartet offerings, they put on a show that includes music from Radiohead's guitarist Jonny ...

The Emerson String Quartet is arguably the best string quartet in the world. One thing that makes its programs special is that it never merely samples standard chamber-music literature. Each program ...

The Daedalus Quartet will premiere a new work by UC Davis Department of Music Chair Laurie San Martin as well as pieces by doctoral music composition students in two concerts next weekend. San ...

What’s the best string quartet in the world? Some might pick the Juilliard, others the Arditti, and a few partisans of new music the Kronos. But I’m convinced that among the people who’d bother ...

The Alexander String Quartet and music historian Robert Greenberg are on a roll, embarking on Program 4 of their ongoing "Music as a Mirror of Our World" series for San Francisco Performances at 10 ...

The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

The large, active crowd flowing into the Fox Theater on Sunday afternoon might well have been taken for a group of football fans waiting for the Super Bowl game to start. If they were, though, they ...

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 ...

The members of the Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet, making their second appearance this season on the Cal Performances lineup, are also in the midst of a three-season-long collaboration with ...

It was a happy idea to couple teacher and pupil in these first releases of the Sixth String Quartet by Charles Wood, best known for his numerous settings of the English rite, with the earlier version ...