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At Suntory Hall's annual chamber music festival, the Schumann Quartett embarks on a marathon of performing all of Beethoven’s string quartets over six concerts.

Making their long-awaited debut in Japan, the Elias String Quartet embarks on the complete Beethoven cycle with a contrasting programme of early and late quartets.

A chamber music competition may not be the most glamorous of music competitions, but the Osaka event has the reputation of picking the talents of the future.

The marathon chamber concert leg of the Beethoven Day in Budapest's Liszt Academy featured artists such as Miklós Perényi, Dénes Várjon and the Hungarian Quartet.

Welser-Möst led The Cleveland Orchestra in Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen along with his own transcription for string orchestra of Beethoven’s Op.132 quartet.

Energy and rage in Beethoven and van Dijk from the Signum Quartet at the Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.

The Cleveland Orchestra’s 100th anniversary season officially opened with a stunning program that also featured Franz Welser-Möst’s own transcription of Beethoven’s Op.132 string quartet.

Three Beethoven string quartets were given the Takács Quartet treatment, showing characteristic passion and insight, including the emotionally exhausting A minor quartet, Op. 132.

Impressive rapport among members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Mozart and Beethoven.

Yefim Bronfman was a magisterial soloist for Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, plus a rousing Choral Fantasy.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its formation, Sydney’s Goldner String Quartet compiled quite an extraordinary programme.

The Takács Quartet in an engaging programme of works referencing murderous marital strife, life-threatening illness and recovery – and less harrowing inspirations.

“My Mother was a stalker”: The target of her affections T.S.Eliot. Great expectstions drew us to his Four Quartets and to one of Beethoven's best during the Music In Great Irish Houses festival.

St Giles’ Cathedral, at the top of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, boasts a wonderful acoustic. From the chancel of this magnificent building a string quartet, drawn from the Red Note Ensemble’s flexible and varied forces, presented a late-evening, candlelit programme of meditative music entitled, Hymn of Thanks (Transcendence).

Continuing their Beethoven cycle, the Belcea Quartet gave us another selection spanning Beethoven’s string quartet writing, allowing us to see how Beethoven transformed the medium from its elegant beginnings through to the complexity and expressiveness of his final works.

The final leg of Lammermuir Festival's Musical Journey brought us within a few metres of the shore, to the church of St. Andrew Blackadder and to arguably the most challenging programme of the day. Contemplation of the end of life informed each piece and the contrasting circumstances, responses and outcomes could be heard in the music.

Cosmos Cuartet es una de las propuestas más estimulantes de los últimos años por su depurado sonido y la gran exigencia que demuestran reto tras reto. El programa que presentaron en la Schubertíada encaja como anillo al dedo con el ideario del festival, con un Schubert maduro y poético y un monumental Beethoven de gran transcendencia.

Una refinada y emotiva interpretación en la que los Últimos Cuartetos de Cuerda de Beethoven desplegaron un sentido más allá de su estricto contenido musical.

Auch am zweiten Abend des Beethoven-Zyklus bleibt das Quartett unübertroffen.

Fondé en 1945, le Quatuor Borodine est l’un des plus vieux quatuors à cordes au monde. Certes, ses membres d’origine, parmi lesquels Mstislav Rostropovitch au violoncelle et Rudolf Barchaï à l’alto, ont depuis été remplacés par des collègues plus jeunes.

Au Centre de musique de chambre, au mois de février, deux programmes se partagent l'affiche : Beethoven par le quatuor Arod, puis La Truite de Schubert jouée par la troupe de musiciens du Centre. Toujours autant de passion et d'excellence ; un vrai bonheur !