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 ...
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 ...
The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a fascination with and commitment to playing on gut rather than wire strings and ...
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 ...
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 ...