The two buttresses of this programme are Britten’s Second String Quartet of 1945 and the D major one he wrote as a student in 1931. The Miniature Suite of 1929, the Divertimenti and the D major ...

Musically speaking, the time of the String Quartet No. 2 was the beginning of the end for Borodin. It was written when he was in his late forties and at exactly the period when finding time for music ...

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The Rosamunde Quartet made its Indianapolis debut in a co-presentation with the International Violin Competition of ...

It was for Philadelphia's Musical Fund Society's chamber work competition that Szymanowski wrote his String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 in the autumn of 1927. The Quartet did not win, the two ex aequo ...

Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have intrigued Mendelssohn; but the relationship between the last two, a flattened sixth against a fifth, ...