While the Doric are incapable of a dull or unconsidered phrase, their liberties with tempo and silence can be extreme. A case in point is their faltering opening of No 2, presumably to underline the ...

Contrasting sets from Amsterdam’s Dudok Quartet and the London Haydn Quartet prove illuminating. And Inside Music with Lucy Crowe Some 21 years separate the composition of two sets of Haydn string ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.

A few days into the new year, four musicians gather in an Upper West Side apartment to play through a Haydn string quartet. The cellist spears the kilim with his end pin, gouging the parquet beneath.