Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Two prodigious composers who lived half a ...

Mendelssohn's music doesn't get nearly enough respect. Sure, he's regularly listed among the Romantic masters, but often with a condescending asterisk suggesting that his music is just a little too ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

Penetrating playing of three distinct works from the mighty Mendelssohn. Album of the Weekend, 19-20 April 2014. Among the many good String Quartets currently on the scene, the Berlin-based Artemis ...

It seems only yesterday that the Pacifica Quartet burst on the scene, yet the youthful ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary this season with debuts in Japan and in London’s Wigmore Hall–and by ...

Mendelssohn's string quartets belie the received image of his being an emotionally safe composer, and the Quatuor Ebène's latest album presents us with what are probably the most intense pieces in his ...

The Tinalley String Quartet aspires to be the first Australian quartet to record the complete catalogue of string quartets by the great romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn. The first of three ...

The first instalment of Naxos's survey of the Mendelssohn quartets ranges right across his output. The E flat Op 12 was published in 1830 as his first quartet, though at least two other works in the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of Mendelssohn’s six quartets, the three here come from noticeably different periods – the teenage years (No 2), the ...

The Paris-based Quatuor Ebene — the "Ebony Quartet" — has risen fast in the musical world with two separate artistic identities. In recent years, audiences have gotten to know the "other" Ebenes — the ...

A year before the end of his extraordinarily productive life, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a brief, existential question on the score of the final movement of his last completed major work: “Muss es ...