World premiere performance of MONK SUITE — compositions and arrangements for string quartet and bass featuring the music of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and J. S. Bach String quartet ETHEL ’s ...
There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...
Singing from memory, Solomon’s Knot made Bach’s great B minor Mass feel like intimate, spontaneous chamber music There has surely never been a better time for beautifully manicured and disciplined ...
It’s not even 249 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth — Dec. 16, 1770 — yet programmatic celebrations of his 250th anniversary have already begun. Beethoven’s symphonies, sonatas and concertos ...
Prepare to feel completely inadequate: this string quartet are all aged between 6 and 10 years old, and they can knock out a mean Bach concerto. Ah, the mature and refined work of J.S. Bach. Something ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "ETHEL is thrilled and honored to share the Carnegie Hall stage with our longtime ...
Carya String Quartet presents Meditations on Bach, featuring 10 new Bach chorales and 10 new works of art by the artists of Archway Gallery. The event will be be released daily, March 22-31, on Carya ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This is the third volume of the Danish String Quartet's ongoing Prism series, ...
The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...
Pick music from any genre or time period. Chances are, the Carpe Diem String Quartet can play it. They know the theme from “The Simpsons” and are well-versed in Beethoven and Bach. They dabble in ...
The Carya String Quartet will take a minute or two to listen to a Bach Chorale and contemplate a work of art curated to promote reflection. Over a two-week period beginning on July 26, the Carya ...