Door County Pulse

Seasonal Griffon String Quartet Concerts

Midsummer’s Music affiliate ensemble the Griffon String Quartet presents a trio of festive holiday concerts this December – ...
SFGate

Album review: Morton Feldman, String Quartet No. 1

New York's formidable Flux Quartet has made something of a specialty of Morton Feldman's terrifying six-hour String Quartet No. 2 (including a fine recording), so the group's new recording of the ...
The Boston Globe

Morton Feldman’s epic String Quartet No. 2, all in a day’s work for Flux Quartet

The frame music puts around time is also a magnifying glass. In an everyday context, 5½ hours might be an unremarkable interval; in the context of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, it was ...
Medicine Buffalo

First presentation of Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle at UB to take place this month

UB music fans will have the opportunity to hear all 15 Shostakovich String Quartets performed in five concerts taking place April 12-23 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus The ...
Chicago magazine

How Four Musicians Plan to Survive the Longest String Quartet Ever Written

Six hours onstage, with no intermission and rests barely long enough to sip water. Sounds more like Marina Abramović performance art than a chamber music concert. But that’s precisely what the daring ...
Forbes

Classical CD Of The Week: Mendelssohn String Quartets

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...