The Music: Beethoven’s Quartet No.12 unleashed his final sequence of five string quartets that reinvented the form as a conceptual work-in-progress – structures were filleted, harmonies stretched, ...

String Quartet No. 14 Janácek Qt Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Janácek Qt (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 3 in C, ...

A series of concerts devoted to Mozart’s quartets kicks off with an exhilarating exploration of the boundaries of his writing Mozart’s string quartets are core chamber music repertoire. That much is ...

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