Szymanowski wrote his String Quartet No. 1 in the autumn of 1917, during one of the most difficult periods of his life, when the revolutionaries and the Soviet communist party escalated their ...

The feverish unease that pervades these late Schubert works, with their ambiguous shifts from major to minor, tremolo triplets and searing outbursts, is perfectly captured by the excellent Doric ...

Opus 4 String Quartet with special guest Erika Lawson will celebrate a Mozart Festival with two performances. Featured works include the Mozart Quintet in C Major and Quartet in C Major, K.465 “The ...

The season opens with “Musical Memoirs” on Sunday, Oct. 30. The program includes Dmitri Shostakovich’s autobiographical “String Quartet No. 8,” Anton Webern’s nature-inspired “Langsamer Satz,” and ...

Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet in C major, so nicknamed because of the clashing harmonies in the slow introduction, takes top billing here, but it is the D minor, also from the “Haydn” set, that leaps ...

It has become a dandy little tradition. For five years in a row, the Boulder-based Takács Quartet has made the short journey down the turnpike for an annual appearance at the Lakewood Cultural Center.