It is hard enough to compete for attention in a city that is literally overflowing with worthy classical music events of every shape and size, but the Ancora String Quartet also deals with the ...

Only one string quartet has operated continuously for more than a century: The Pro Arte Quartet. The resident ensemble of the University of Wisconsin-Madison actually celebrated its centennial year ...

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.

When Elizabeth Maconchy began her first string quartet in 1932, Vaughan Williams was in the ascendant, and Benjamin Britten had barely begun to make his mark. By the time she completed No 13, in 1984, ...

A new boxed set of string quartets by Wadada Leo Smith, an anchor of American experimental music, reveals his sustained engagement with the form. By Seth Colter Walls The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith ...