It took music by Anton Webern to reveal the true character of the Tokyo String Quartet's latest performance for the Houston Friends of Music. That isn't as shocking as it might seem. The Langsamer ...
The season opens with “Musical Memoirs” on Sunday, Oct. 30. The program includes Dmitri Shostakovich’s autobiographical “String Quartet No. 8,” Anton Webern’s nature-inspired “Langsamer Satz,” and ...
An up and coming string quartet will play Beethoven this weekend in St. Petersburg. The Jasper String Quartet, winner of the 2012 Cleveland Quartet Award, consists of violinists J. Freivogel and Sae ...
On Sunday, it was appropriate that the Tokyo String Quartet brought Mozart’s last quartet, a work in which the composer’s creativity moves at stupefying speed and complexity, to Caltech, one of the ...
Anyone still thinking of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern as soulless serialists will be surprised by the feverish romanticism that burns so fiercely in all three of these works for string quartet.