WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

After a long absence — since early 2020 when the specter of pandemia intervened, forcing the cancellation of live performances worldwide — the Jerusalem Quartet performed at the Leo Rich Theater this ...

This summer, Chamber Music Northwest celebrates the 200th anniversaries of two indispensable and very different composers: Franz Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn. The son of a wheelwright, Haydn ...

The members of the Emerson String Quartet, which returned on Tuesday night to Samueli Theater for its annual visit, play together as four equals. There’s not a retiring sort between them, and to hear ...

In 2008, the members of the Chicago-based Vermeer Quartet decided to call it quits, after 38 years as one of the world’s most highly esteemed string quartets. One member, cellist Marc Johnson, wanted ...

Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.