WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.
In its recitals at Wigmore Hall the Doric String Quartet has shown an affinity for Haydn. The set of six quartets, Op.20, written when the composer was 40, catch him in the white heat of experiment, ...
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.20, No.3Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.20, No.3 ...
The Mosaiques' previous Haydn disc (also on Astree, 2/90) contains what for my money are the most penetrating readings of the two Op. 77 works in the catalogue. Now they turn to his first indisputably ...
The Opus 20 string quartets by Haydn are breakthrough works that established the quartet style for generations. All four voices are equally important in a new, more emotional discourse that has left ...
The Cramer Quartet's season opener, "Springtime in September," focuses on Haydn's development and influence on Mozart as a quartet composer. The program features Haydn's "Sun" Quartet Op. 20 No. 2 as ...
The Music: Haydn’s six Op.20 String Quartets were written in the productive year 1772 and called the ‘Sun’ after the publisher Hummel’s trademark. Beethoven modelled his Op.18 set on them and Brahms ...
'These were the quartets that made us fall in love with the genre': Dudok Quartet Amsterdam on Haydn
The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...
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