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.

The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...

Humorous, earnest, prolific and always deeply humane, the Austrian composer is credited with inventing the symphony and the string quartet. Even if that’s not strictly true, his creativity shaped ...

Gut-strung instruments are used here, and the recording very clearly reproduces the subtleties they convey. Watch your volume though because the transfer level is rather high. The violins are ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

If you are unfamiliar with Haydn's string quartets, this is a good place to start. If, on the other hand, you already know the great man’s chamber music, you will find this CD irresistible. The ...

New releases from the Maxwell Quartet and Kristian Bezuidenhout. Plus, the rush hour with In Tune Joseph Haydn is sometimes regarded as a connoisseur’s composer with too little popular appeal, so it’s ...

The Viano Quartet's Monday night concert offered strongly contrasted music that still suggested provocative associations. Presented by the Dallas Chamber Music Society at Southern Methodist University ...

Debates about "best" composers are silly, but in this year of Haydn, his admirers are seizing the opportunity to right a few wrongs when it comes to their favorite composer. And wronged they feel.

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In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...