For the members of the Beo String Quartet, a concert is much more than four musicians playing beautiful music. It is, they ...

Beethoven’s final quartet against Stravinsky’s Pulcinella-derived Suite italienne, plus folk arrangements the ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

Shostakovich’s Third Quartet starts with a blithe, even naïve, tune that could not be more misleading about the emotional fireworks that follow. It’s not long before this neoclassical language becomes ...

"If you're too busy to sing, you're too busy." In 1983, my father, Joe Romanelli, brought an unusual gift home with him: a barbershop quartet. Once a week, the men would show up in our living room and ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

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Considered by many the greatest contribution to the 20th-century string quartet repertoire, Bartók’s cycle is a rite of passage for any number of ensembles. Richard Whitehouse chooses his favourites ...

The narrative winds these characters closer and closer together from four separate origins to tell a single story. At the game's heart—both narratively and mechanically—is magic. A villainous empire ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Think of a composer from Argentina and the most likely name to come up will be Astor Piazzolla, wizard of the ...

When four top film studio musicians formed the Hollywood String Quartet in the late 1930s, its name was presumed an oxymoron. Exalted string quartet devotees belittled film soundtracks, while studio ...

A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage. Choose from four stories, in any order, and discover how they intertwine in this ...