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Das Quatuor Ébène tanzt durch ein spannendes Programm von Haydn, Bartók und Schubert. Mit einem neuen Cellisten...

Mit Mendelssohn Bartholdys f-Moll-Streichquartett riss das Quartett die Zuhörer von ihren Sitzen.

Unter dem Titel Das Bartók-Projekt spielte das Jerusalem Quartett an drei Abenden alle sechs Streichquartette von Béla Bartók im kleinen Saal der Laeiszhalle. Stefan Pillhofer berichtet vom letzten Konzertabend mit den Quartetten Nr. 5 und 6.

The Doric String Quartet plays all six of Béla Bartók's quartets in one day at this year's Aldeburgh Festival.

An accomplished performance by the renowned Belcea Quartet marked the first of the summer’s “Serenade” concerts, an open-air series held in the park of the historic Villa Schönberg. 

Les Diotima ne se sont pas fait la partie belle : quel pari exorbitant que de vouloir jouer en une seule soirée l’intégrale des Quatuors de Bartók ! D’aucuns auraient pensé que ce qu’ont tenté les quatre musiciens était perdu d’avance...

Saturday's opening concert of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival was something of a lukewarm experience, yet it occasionally shone with ravishing Beethoven and deeply engaging Bartók.

For the enthusiastic crowd that called the Takács Quartet back for multiple bows, Bartók will never sound quite the same again.

It’s perhaps an unusual choice to have the opening sounds of Bartók’s Second String Quartet, a little tender, a little recalcitrant, announce the start of this most impressive 20-day celebration of orchestras around Europe and the world.

The Tokyo String Quartet played a kind of “meta-goodbye” concert this Saturday evening at 92Y. The performance, their last at this venue before the quartet is disbanded, featured three great composers’ own farewells, the final works written for string chamber ensembles by Schubert, Haydn, and Bartók.

More than 40 years ago, violist Kazuhide Isomura got together with three other Japanese students at the Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan and formed the Tokyo String Quartet. After touring the globe for upward of 4,000 performances, more than 40 for Music Toronto, with 40 albums and nearly 40 years of teaching at Yale, last night, Mr Isomura played his final Music Toronto concert.