San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet occupies an interesting niche in classical music. All four are adept players, and make their instruments (some of which are more than 300 years old) sing. But they ...

What It Means to Write a Quartet After Beethoven There is something about a string quartet that resembles human conversation.

Native Instruments has announced the Cremona Quartet Ensemble virtual instrument, which they say makes it easier than ever to create beautiful and cohesive string arrangements. Here's the details in ...

This time, I would like to explain the string quartet, a drama of sound performed by four string instruments.▶︎PreviousWhat is a string quartet?A string quartet is a type of chamber music and a genre ...

“Turn, Turn, Turn” has been recorded a lot of different ways, so why not with an avant-garde, chamber-music quartet? That’s the thinking behind the new album, Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and ...

The Grammy-nominated Enso String Quartet puts the "class" in this episode of Classical Classroom. We discuss where string quartets come from, why the instruments in a quartet go together so well, what ...

The ensemble played Mozart, Dvořák and Prokofiev with precision but sometimes too much intensity ...

Schubert’s sorrow-laden string quartet “Death and the Maiden” would be an unlikely candidate for any holiday playlist. Ditto the rest of Wednesday’s program by the Miró Quartet at the Library of ...