It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Chamber music may be intimate in scope, but it can be a huge draw when the artistic stars align. The magnets at Tuesday's Cleveland Chamber Music Society concert were the Juilliard String Quartet and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

Save for a handful of renegades and visionaries, classical musicians tend to put fidelity to the score close to the top of their priorities. That comes with certain constraints—especially when playing ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The title comes from the composer himself. When the first players tried out Beethoven’s Opus 59 string quartets in ...