It was for Philadelphia's Musical Fund Society's chamber work competition that Szymanowski wrote his String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 in the autumn of 1927. The Quartet did not win, the two ex aequo ...
Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No.2 in D Major: III. Nocturne. A celebration of aging with Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No.2 in D Major: III. Nocturne at the Weisman Art Museum. Quartet ...
The ensemble will be making its first Cleveland appearance courtesy of the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, at the Cultural Arts Center at Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights. Their program will ...
Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, Op. 133 Beethoven – String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 The internationally renowned and award-winning Emerson String Quartet has ...
The frame music puts around time is also a magnifying glass. In an everyday context, 5½ hours might be an unremarkable interval; in the context of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, it was ...
Schoenberg’s influential String Quartet No 2 both acknowledged and broke away from tradition. Richard Whitehouse surveys its recorded history The 150th anniversary year of Schoenberg’s birth has ...