First Quartet News Today

A powerful new live cycle from these Shostakovich veterans

The Rockport Chamber Music Festival opened its 42nd annual season with a sold-out weekend of concerts at the Shalin Liu Performance Center.

Superlative renditions of the composer’s two string quartets illuminate his musical transition from communist Hungary to the western avant garde

THE trombone quartet Bones Apart served up a hugely enjoyable feast for Skipton Music, the latest in its ‘hidden treasures’ series featuring…

Matthias Goerne's 'Schubert Revisited', Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say reunited, Stephen Hough's First String Quartet

The French harpist turns his attention to works by Reinhold Glière and his pupil Alexander Mosolov, the latter a first recording

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

50 of the finest Brahms recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews and an exclusive playlist

We continue enjoying summer electropop, new music for wind quintet, and prepare for next week's Momenta Festival with a microtonal piece from 2011. 

Gathering to celebrate a birthday Jehles three children — Paul, 68, with wife Charlene of Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts; Dave, 66, with wife Annalou of Statesville, North Carolina; and Jinnie DeHaan, with husband Roger — gathered Saturday with Arthur Jehle and his wife, Sara, at the Citra home where he has lived since 1979. The Jehle family celebrated Arthur’s birthday with a dinner at an Ocala restaurant. Also in attendance were Suzanne McGuire, representing state Sen. Keith Perry...