Imagine being handed the bat Barry Bonds used for his record-breaking home run. For the Goldmund String Quartet, playing the ...

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

What makes the programming of this show so alluring is although Mendelssohn was considered a romantic composer and Haydn had emerged from the baroque period, there are so many parallels in the way the ...

The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...

The London-based and award-winning Marmen String Quartet came to Richardson Auditorium last week as part of Princeton University Concerts’ Classics Series. In a performance full of originality and ...

When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...

The Budapest String Quartet has always been my standard-bearer for chamber music. I grew up listening to their recordings, and especially admired not only their gorgeous sound, but also the uncanny ...