Inside Chamber Music is a new music education series that Asia Society Hong Kong Center is co-presenting with Premiere Performances. Each Inside Chamber Music evening combines a streamed lecture from ...

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.

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ABC ...

The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...

In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...

The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...