The six string quartets of Haydn’s Op 33 include two of his most popular – the ones nicknamed the Joke and the Bird, justifying his claim that the works were written “in a completely new and special ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1997 four young musicians in Geneva founded the Terpsycordes Quartet: Girolamo Bottiglieri (violin), Raya Raytcheva (violin); Caroline Haas (viola); François Grin (cello). The Terpsycordes Quartet ...

Haydn, Mozart and a couple of pals played Haydn's Op. 33 String Quartets together in Vienna, and Mozart loved them so much he was inspired to write his own set. The Daedalus Quartet plays one of those ...

The six string quartets that Joseph Haydn composed around 1781 - his Op. 33 - contain some of his most inspired and innovative music. Stephen Johnson joins the members of the Wihan Quartet in front of ...