Awed by their grandeur, Roderick Williams put off performing the great song cycles of Beethoven and Schubert for many years: doing so now with his veteran accompanist Ian Burnside, he makes that wait ...
REVIEW Every string quartet worth its rosin plays Haydn. None, though, plays Haydn like the London Haydn Quartet. Where others treat the Classical-period master with deference, these accomplished ...
In their debut recording the Maxwell Quartet takes an innovative approach pairing each of Haydn's Op. 71 quartets with a tune, or set of traditional tunes, from the ensemble’s homeland of Scotland.
Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...
London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...