"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 ...

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 ...

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ABC ...

Donald Macleod enjoys a masterclass in string quartet writing from one of the great masters of the form, Joseph Haydn. Show more Donald Macleod surveys the string quartets of Joseph Haydn. From his ...

WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

Like it or not, we live in a time of anxious uncertainty. It is easy to think of earlier times as being calmer and less unsettled, and to conclude that the art of those times offers a tranquil refuge ...

Conceived by Richard Tognetti, Haydn for Everyone has been an ambitious three-year project from Melbourne Festival to present the complete string quartets of Joseph Haydn. The London Haydn Quartet ...

The young ensemble performs string quartets by Haydn, Kui Dong and Schumann in this concert from Barcelona. The programme includes Haydn's famously humorous quartet 'The Joke.' Penny Gore presents. 12 ...

The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...

Premieres Friday, September 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nowhearthis and the PBS Video app When Joseph Haydn visited England, he was so taken ...

‘Too highly seasoned’, ran an early review of Mozart’s six ‘Haydn’ Quartets. ‘And whose palate can endure this for long?’ No works contributed more to his reputation as a ‘difficult’ composer than ...