by Kevin T McEneaney Franz Joseph Haydn essentially created the quartet in the 1760s and nurtured it to maturity with Mozart. The commission for Beethoven to compose his first quartets…
by Kevin T McEneaney Music enthusiasts have been waiting for SummerScape to address Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a long time. The 36th SummerScape Festival has finally embraced him! The two-week…
by Kevin T McEneaney Erinys (meaning Furies) Quartet derives its name from the Oresteia by Aeschylus. They were founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. They have toured Europe…
Last Sunday afternoon at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, Daniel Adam Maltz performed a program on a newly created fortepiano that imitated the sound of an instrument during the…
by Kevin T McEneaney At Saint James Place in Great Barrington, last Saturday, Aston Magna, an organization devoted to the playing of period instruments, offered a program titled The Genius…
by Kevin T McEneaney In the winding woods north of New Milford, CT, The Sherman Ensemble opened with Flute Quartet in D Major, Op. 5, No. 3 (1776). In his…
by Kevin T McEneaney The Arianna String Quartet, currently one of the very top quartets in the country, was scheduled to play Last Sunday during the tornado storm, but the…
by Kevin T McEneaney Under fluffy blue skies that provided an afternoon shower, the Baldouret Quartet opened with Maurice Ravel’s first composition, String Quartet in F Major (1903), dedicated to…
by Kevin T McEneaney The Euclid Quartet from Ohio opened with String Quartet No. 1 in G Major (1929) by Florence Beatrice Price under sunny skies with scudding cloud puffballs.…
by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening at The Stissing Center, pianist Sophia Zhou, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, and tenor Daniel McGrew presented a delightful program of George Gershswin favorites.…