Is it possible, nearly two centuries after Beethovenʼs death, that secrets remain to be discovered about his life and music? Scholars trying to determine everything from his exact birthdate to the ...

It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Endless invention, and a vision of things to come. Beethoven's last two string quartets in his early ...

Save for a handful of renegades and visionaries, classical musicians tend to put fidelity to the score close to the top of their priorities. That comes with certain constraints—especially when playing ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Grotesque", "monstrous", "chaotic", "madness"... When audiences ...

Chamber music may be intimate in scope, but it can be a huge draw when the artistic stars align. The magnets at Tuesday's Cleveland Chamber Music Society concert were the Juilliard String Quartet and ...

This quartet was completed by Beethoven in 1826 and is the most popular of his so-called 'late quartets'. It has seven tightly constructed movements to be played with as little pause between them as ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

As is evident from previous recordings in their ongoing cycle, the Artemis Quartet approach Beethoven’s Op. 18 set not as the apogee of 18th-century Viennese Classicism, but rather as transitional ...

String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.18 No.3: 1. Allegro String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.18 No.3: 2. Andante con moto String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.18 No.3: 3. Allegro String ...