One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

Considered by many the greatest contribution to the 20th-century string quartet repertoire, Bartók’s cycle is a rite of passage for any number of ensembles. Richard Whitehouse chooses his favourites ...

The Takacs Quartet (from left, violist Geraldine Walther; violinist Edward Dusinberre; cellist Andras Fejer; and violinist Karoly Schranz) will perform a Bartok cycle next week on the Cleveland ...

Founded in 1975 when its members were students in Budapest, the Takacs remains one of the world’s best string quartets. Their 1998 recording of Bartok’s six quartets received a Gramophone Award and is ...

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The string quartet is one of classical music’s most emblematic ensembles. Composers have poured their deepest thoughts and emotions into two violins, a viola and a cello, building large-scale forms ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 may have seemed like an interloper on the ...