The Danish String Quartet puts the ‘play’ in ‘playing music’

Bored with standard string quartet offerings, they put on a show that includes music from Radiohead's guitarist Jonny ...
BBC

Mendelssohn's Octet with the Elias and Emmeline Quartets string quartets

The Elias and Emmeline Quartets string quartets let us inside their Manchester rehearsals for a performance of Mendelssohn's amazing Octet. Show more The Elias Quartet join forces with the Emmeline ...
NPR

Mendelssohn Octet for Strings

The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play the Scherzo movement from Felix ...
BroadwayWorld

Powerhouse Strings: Mendelssohn’s Octet & More at Chamber Music Northwest

Eleven of the world’s most renowned string artists converge: violinists Carolin Widmann and Benjamin Beilman, bassist Nina Bernat, and the doubly dynamic Viano and Opus13 quartets! The World Premiere ...
The Guardian

‘It’s quartet Disney World!’ Getting to grips with world’s biggest string quartet festival

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...
Seven Days

A Couple of Accomplished Quartets Tackle Debussy and Mendelssohn

The longstanding and excellent Borromeo String Quartet returns to Vermont this weekend. And this time, the foursome will bring along a newer quartet: Gioviale, an award-winning student ensemble at the ...
Brandeis University

Lydian String Quartet set to open season, joined by new violist

Brandeis' internationally recognized chamber music group, the Lydian String Quartet, will open its concert season with performances of compositions by Franz Joseph Haydn, Phillip Glass and Elliott ...