Coronavirus has given me the opportunity to catch up—to write about exhibitions, performances, books, that I had meant to address but that slipped by until Coronavirus got in the way. I feel like ...

The period-instrument quartet’s recording of Beethoven’s Ops 74 and 130 offers many rewards Though there’s no shortage of recordings of the Beethoven quartets, versions by groups taking an ...

Beethoven's three "Razumovsky" string quartets left both their first performers and the public shocked and suspicious. The violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh, whose quartet premiered the Opus 59 works, ...

Last weekend, the spotlight shone brightly on two of our extraordinary chorus quartets, ‘The Fourtuned Cookies’ and ‘A ...

String quartets are among the hardiest and most adaptable of musical organisms. As mobile as rock bands, in some ways even more so, they can appear, do their thing, and slip away into the night. Small ...

Ralph Fiennes delivers an animated performance of the T.S. Eliot works, but the film doesn’t quite succeed in bringing the stage into the cinema. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Scientists have come up with a way to reveal the pecking order within a string quartet. A team from the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Birmingham found that analysing how individual ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most composers – and most listeners – see the string quartet as a civilised conversation. Not Carter (1908-2012). In ...

I first read T. S. Eliot’s poetic sequence Four Quartets as an eighth-grade Catholic schoolgirl, in a thin hardbound anthology from our small school library. I usually preferred fiction, but I was ...