Grażyna Bacewicz treated violin and other string instruments with a special attention, a consequence of her violin studies under Józef Jarzębski in Warsaw and under André Touret and Karl Flesch in ...

With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...

Violins of Hope, a project built around a private collection of over 70 restored instruments connected to Jewish musicians ...

Canadian violinist James Ehnes couples Khachaturian's cheer-fully garrulous 1940 Violin Concerto with two of Shostakovich's finest string quartets, both written in 1960s: the Seventh, dedicated to the ...

The Harrington String Quartet at West Texas A&M University will conclude its season with a newly commissioned piece ...

Meta4 string quartet play Robert Schumann and Sally Beamish from the Wigmore Hall.

Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet Bruno Monteiro, Violin Lopes-Graça Quartet (Amedée-)Ernest Chausson, Composer João Paulo Santos, Piano The Quarteto Lopes-Graça is an impressive line-up of ...

Watch these talented virtuosos balance and bow on a 12-metre floating violin winding its way around the picturesque Italian city. Venetian artist and sculptor Livio De Marchi has for decades created ...

The trademark gondolas of Venice's Grand Canal played second fiddle this weekend to a very unusual vessel: A giant violin carrying a live string quartet. "Noah's Violin" is the most recent creation of ...

Violinist Monique Lapins admits she can be highly strung. Dynamic in person, that's a perfect fit for the instrument she has been playing for the past two decades. In the 27-year-old's hands, the bow ...

In the late 1970s, American composer Morton Feldman began writing exceptionally lengthy compositions. Not only did these works push the boundaries of traditional concert duration, but more importantly ...