Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

La Speranza will kick off their 2017-2018 “Mentors Inspire!” concert series featuring the renowned composer Franz Joseph Haydn. This first concert features one of Haydn’s early string quartets as well ...

It’s easy to think of classical music as a museum of precious artifacts. But that viewpoint distorts the reality in which they were created. “What we think of as pillars of classical repertory--Haydn, ...

WHEN Alina Ibragimova last graced York, it was with a pair of concerts presenting Bach’s works for unaccompanied violin, a "dry run" of her triumphant BBC Proms performances days later. Two years have ...

Musical nicknames are good for business. Haydn’s set of six string quartets, Op 33, has had nicknames for the whole set, none of which is very widely used. “Russian”, favoured by BIS, remembers the ...

Beethoven wanted to get his first set of string quartets just right. He was in his 20s, and they sounded a bit like late Haydn's. And why wouldn't they? The classical master was Beethoven's teacher.

"Around string players, it's a misty goal, like climbing Mount Everest. Everybody aspires to it." Violinist and violist Anthony Martin is talking about performing all 68 of Joseph Haydn's completed ...

The Dallas Chamber Music Society presented the Viano Quartet — (from left) violinists Hao Zhou and Lucy Wang, cellist Tate Zawadiuk and violist Aiden Kane — at Southern Methodist University's Caruth ...