There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...
The Diderot String Quartet will bring the music of J.S. Bach — and the man who might have saved him from obscurity — to St. James Episcopal Church on Friday. The 7:30 p.m. concert, “Bach to the Future ...
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Prepare to feel completely inadequate: this string quartet are all aged between 6 and 10 years old, and they can knock out a mean Bach concerto. Ah, the mature and refined work of J.S. Bach. Something ...
Pick music from any genre or time period. Chances are, the Carpe Diem String Quartet can play it. They know the theme from “The Simpsons” and are well-versed in Beethoven and Bach. They dabble in ...
The Carya String Quartet will take a minute or two to listen to a Bach Chorale and contemplate a work of art curated to promote reflection. Over a two-week period beginning on July 26, the Carya ...
The program is expected to include selections from J.S. Bach's "The Art of the Fugue," Sean Neukom's "El Balcón" (featuring ...
WINTER PARK — Is the Emerson String Quartet the only quartet whose members — except for the cellist, for obvious reasons — stand as they play? A few larger groups do that, but no other quartets come ...
The story goes that the British composer Stephen Storace gave a musical soiree in Vienna in 1785. For the occasion, four prominent composers were enlisted to perform as a string quartet. Joseph Haydn ...
J.S. Bach’s final work, the unfinished cycle of fugues and canons known as “Die Kunst der Fugue,” is a summation of Baroque polyphonic practice that, in the right performing hands, transcends ...