The Emerson String Quartet is arguably the best string quartet in the world. One thing that makes its programs special is that it never merely samples standard chamber-music literature. Each program ...

Music on the Hill, a nonprofit San Francisco chamber music series dedicated to presenting high-quality concerts at affordable prices, is hosting the Berkelium String Quartet in a concert called "The ...

The Daedalus Quartet will premiere a new work by UC Davis Department of Music Chair Laurie San Martin as well as pieces by doctoral music composition students in two concerts next weekend. San ...

The Fab Four of classical music are to be no more. The Emerson String Quartet are calling it quits, their last Boston gig coming Jan. 22 at Jordan Hall. It might be a stretch to call them the Beatles ...

The members of the Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet, making their second appearance this season on the Cal Performances lineup, are also in the midst of a three-season-long collaboration with ...

According to Anderson's official site, the record features him playing flute "on most of the tracks" as well as contributing occasional vocals. "I felt that there were some songs rather special to me ...

This week it's string quartets by Native American Composers Jerod Tate, Michael Begay, and more. Everyone has an album they heard when young that influences them for life. For Chickasaw composer Jarod ...

All four members of the award-winning Calidore String Quartet teach at the University of Delaware. The quartet worked with John Williams, the epic composer-conductor behind scores in "Star Wars," ...

With each release, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds goes from strength to strength. Over the years, he has drawn from varied experiences in different genres of music, and as a result he has steered ...

Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 ...

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 ...