What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.
There is tough competition in the Britten quartet discography – the Belceas and Brodskys head a crowded field – but the young Elias String Quartet are well worth hearing. They play with freshness and ...
Join us for a weekend in the company of the outstanding Doric Quartet exploring Britten’s string quartets, performed alongside music by Purcell, Mozart, Elgar, Korngold, Copland and John Woolrich.
One of the final Britten releases from last year (the centenary of his birth) was this masterful recording of the composer’s three numbered string quartets. These are among Britten’s better-known ...
It was true when Schubert's "Quartettsatz" ignited the concert and it was true at the evening's final cadence: the Veronika String Quartet's season ending performance was an artistic masterpiece that ...
The Pavel Haas Quartet performed Tuesday on the Cleveland Chamber Music Society series. They are, from left, violist Pavel Nikl; cellist Peter Jarusek; violinist Veronika Jaruskova; and violinist ...
Two distinguished quartets go head-to-head in works that are among the composer’s most traditional in tone and formal in construction Britten: String Quartets 1, 2, 3 and Three Divertimenti; String ...
Benjamin Britten wrote the first two of his numbered string quartets in 1941 and 1945. The First was in the US, where it was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; the Second was written for the ...