Life isn’t always puppies and kittens (she stated sagely). Sometimes, it can be downright tough – maybe your family is falling apart and you’re a famous composer and you’re going deaf. We’ve all been ...

On September 4, Death of Classical, purveyors of fine musical experiences, presented the Ariel Quartet performing Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 in the catacombs of ...

A Late Quartet's centerpiece--Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131--can be a fool's errand. The marathon composition requires string musicians to play, without pauses, no fewer ...

Two musical forms dominated Beethoven’s mind and rounded every chapter of his life: the piano sonata was his vanguard. The string quartet was the ultimate expression. Beethoven’s five late quartets, ...

As is often the case, music is very much on choreographer James Sewell's mind. Beethoven's "Opus 131" is a piece he's studied over the years since first setting movement to it in 1995 -- and he ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rated R. 105 minutes. At the Mayan. C-sharp minor — the mere words conjure up a sense of anxious edge, which is the feeling that drives “A Late Quartet.” ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — What are the odds of two string quartets from Boston playing the identical two works 10 days apart in the Berkshires? We can leave that question to the statisticians. The fact is ...

I am pleased to see Beethoven’s chamber music and solo piano works getting attention as part of the Chicago Symphony’s Beethoven Festival. If two such concerts by rising young performers failed to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Think of it like a piece of theatre – Hamlet, perhaps. That's the advice from Italian violinist Lorenza Borrani for listeners ...