One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

There are occasional moments in Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1 when the gloom lifts, when the densely woven musical lines pause momentarily for a spot of pure, consonant sunniness. In the string ...

The repertoire for string quartet was rich before Bela Bartok took up the genre in the first decade of the 20th century. But the Hungarian composer stretched tradition in every direction, creating six ...

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String Quartet No. 8, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 5 Béla Bartók, Composer Hungarian Quartet String Quartet No. 9, 'Rasumovsky' Hungarian Quartet ...

It’s been just over a year since Bing Concert Hall opened at Stanford University. It’s a grand and beautiful place, but its acoustics are variable. To this listener, music sounds best at Bing when ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

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The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

Takács Quartet has long been a staple at Aspen Music Festival and School, and on March 6 it returns to Harris Concert Hall with a program featuring Beethoven and Bartók. “Harris Hall is one of our ...