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Johannes Brahms once said of Beethoven’s works, “You don’t know what it means to the likes of us when we hear his footsteps behind us.” Brahms felt a…
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Grammy-winning composer Gordon Goodwin says it took time and courage before he finally tried his hand at writing a string quartet. “There is nowhere to…
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Three of the Hagen Quartet’s four members are siblings, and these familial ties add a certain spark to the group’s musical character. Their solidarity and…
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Stacy Garrop’s 4th string quartet “Illuminations” follows the narrative arc of a reader as he or she reflects on the pages of an early 15th century prayer…
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Samuel Barber once described the second movement of his “String Quartet in B Minor” as a “knockout.” It seems that the rest of the world agreed—“Adagio…
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Ernst von Dohnanyi may be considered the greatest Hungarian composer to follow Franz Liszt, but his style was all his own including the highly Romantic…
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The Catalyst Quartet has rendered the entirety of Bach's Goldberg Variations into strings and pair their recording of it with Glenn Gould's string quartet…
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Composer Gordon Goodwin admits he was intimidated to compose for string quartet because he says "there is no where to hide in this genre, not for the…
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The Catalyst Quartet plays Glenn Gould's rarely performed lyrical and lush string quartet in one movement on their new release the Bach/Gould Project.…
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Composer Carlos Chavez, who was born in Mexico City in 1899, wrote three string quartets. The slow movement of his 3rd has become known as a "Mexican…