This outstanding young ensemble, members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, tackles two of Britten's quartets, thrilling masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire written 30 years apart.

Britten’s complete works for string quartet are brought together on these three discs in which the Quartet’s rather brittle playing serves the earlier works better than the more mature ones Of the 200 ...

There is tough competition in the Britten quartet discography – the Belceas and Brodskys head a crowded field – but the young Elias String Quartet are well worth hearing. They play with freshness and ...

Two distinguished quartets go head-to-head in works that are among the composer’s most traditional in tone and formal in construction Britten: String Quartets 1, 2, 3 and Three Divertimenti; String ...

One of the final Britten releases from last year (the centenary of his birth) was this masterful recording of the composer’s three numbered string quartets. These are among Britten’s better-known ...

What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

Britten’s music oddly became more alive in the 1970s, after a long period of increasing solemnity following the failure of Gloriana and the Snape Maltings fire in the late 1960s. His three numbered ...

It was true when Schubert's "Quartettsatz" ignited the concert and it was true at the evening's final cadence: the Veronika String Quartet's season ending performance was an artistic masterpiece that ...

Benjamin Britten wrote the first two of his numbered string quartets in 1941 and 1945. The First was in the US, where it was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; the Second was written for the ...

String Quartet No. 1 Benjamin Britten, Composer Emperor String Quartet Alla marcia Benjamin Britten, Composer Emperor String Quartet String Quartet No. 3 Emperor String Quartet Benjamin Britten, ...