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 ...

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Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are nearly universally regarded as a summit of 20th-century chamber music. Their prestige can spill over to those ensembles that play these challenging works ...

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 ...

In the universe of chamber music, the six string quartets of Bela Bartok seem to occupy their own planet, one with a gravitational pull perhaps more akin to a white dwarf. One might hear these works ...

On Saturday, January 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, January 19 at 3:00 p.m., in Zankel Hall, the critically acclaimed Takács Quartet performs a complete Bartók string quartet cycle-a musical touchstone ...

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 ...

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 School of Music’s Oneppo Chamber Music Series brings some of the world’s leading ensembles to one of Yale’s most intimate concert venues. On Tuesday evening, the globally renowned Emerson String ...

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 ...