Other highlights in the season, announced by the society's artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han, are to include "Schubert Ascending," a three-concert festival organized by the pianist Inon Barnatan in November; the annual Baroque Festival in December; and a program of the complete string quartets of Beethoven, planned for January and February.
BBC Radio 3 plans to clear its schedule for six consecutive days and nights from June 5 through 10 to broadcast all of the works of Beethoven, right, from the complete string quartets and symphonies to his versions of folk songs and cantatas.
The Complete String Trios And Quartets.
Though hardly annual events, performances of the complete string quartets are not rare, and we even heard a survey of the nine symphonies from John Eliot Gardiner and his period instrument orchestra last spring at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Oct. 29 at 7: The Jack Quartet, an up-and-coming group of adept composer-performers who are already veterans of the Venice Biennale, offers the complete string quartets of the modernist legend Iannis Xenakis, in all their dazzling and rugged glory.
BEST CLASSICAL ALBUMS OF 2001 "Haydn: The Complete String Quartets," Angeles Quartet (Philips) — Haydn virtually invented the string quartet, and no group has made the entire….
It focused on Beethoven in recent concerts there, offering the complete string quartets paired with piano sonatas.
(Zachary Woolfe) Classical Music Attacca Quartet (Tuesday) This excellent young ensemble celebrates its debut album, "Fellow Traveler: The Complete String Quartet Music of John Adams".
But the Angeles Quartet, in its new boxed set, "Haydn: The Complete String Quartets," on Philips, has made the whole journey unusually enticing, and clearly outranks the earlier efforts of the Aeolian and Kodály Quartets (on London and Naxos, respectively).
March 22 2013 March 24 201313 The Society's presentation of the complete string quartets of Shostakovich this season makes a fine companion to its centennial concerts of music by Britten, the Russian master's great friend and colleague.
