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.

Britten’s complete works for string quartet are brought together on these three discs in which the Quartet’s rather brittle playing serves the earlier works better than the more mature ones Of the 200 ...

Anyone who heard the Takács play Britten's three quartets at the Wigmore Hall in London a year ago will know what to expect from this superb recording, made two months later. Other groups might bring ...

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 ...

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.

Britten’s music oddly became more alive in the 1970s, after a long period of increasing solemnity following the failure of Gloriana and the Snape Maltings fire in the late 1960s. His three numbered ...

It is fascinating to compare the two main works offered, not just Bliss’s Second Quartet (1950) but also Britten’s Second Quartet (1945), written in part as a tribute to Purcell on the 350th ...

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 ...

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 ...