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.

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 ...

In a move that stunned local arts patrons, the Los Angeles-based Angeles String Quartet has announced it is disbanding after more than 13 years. The decision was all the more surprising because the ...

The Auryn Quartet at the WGBH Studio in Boston. How do you transform four good players into an exquisite string quartet? Breathe. That's what the members of the Cologne-based Auryn Quartet told me ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...