The California Festival ended on Sunday. The inaugural festival’s website boasted more than 180 recent compositions performed by 100 statewide organizations since November 3. Among the festival’s ...

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.

Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...

The St. Lawrence String Quartet is on a mission to promote the composer who made the string quartet the cornerstone of chamber music. It was the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, back in the 1700s, who ...

REVIEW Every string quartet worth its rosin plays Haydn. None, though, plays Haydn like the London Haydn Quartet. Where others treat the Classical-period master with deference, these accomplished ...

Too broke to buy a viola? Don’t let that stop you from making beautiful music. Sometimes, playing in a string quartet can get repetitive. Here’s how you can mix things up a bit. Violist Efdal Altun ...

The New Zealand String Quartet celebrates the life and music of composer Joseph Haydn on its annual tour to six centres in August and September. The concert series features two different programmes of ...