WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...

Late in life, Haydn reportedly expressed the wish that his canon of string quartets should be considered to have begun not with his very earliest works in the form, from the late 1750s, but with Op 9 ...

(6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 4 in B flat, 'Sunrise' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 5 in D Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', ...

In many ways the Amadeus Quartet was the leading string quartet of the LP era. They made their first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1951 and continued to record for the label almost up to their ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...

Despite their different opus numbers, which was a ploy of the original publisher to maximise sales, the six quartets of Op 71 and Op 74 are as much of a coherent group as any of Haydn's earlier sets.

String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387: I. Allegro vivace assai String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387: II. Menuetto String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387: III. Andante cantabile String Quartet ...

That great 18th-century musical observer Charles Burney responded to Haydn's Op 76 quartets by describing them as being "full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects". The historically informed ...

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...