Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

Sometimes an encore tells you everything about a band. That's how it was in New Orleans on Wednesday, as the Jerusalem String Quartet closed a vibrant night of music making with the haunted slow ...

You may think you know what string quartets sound like, but prepare to be surprised! Hosts Laurel and Sascha welcome violinist Jannina Norpoth as the guest on this week's episode of Sound Currents, ...

When the Dover Quartet asked Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate to compose a new work inspired by Native American traditions, he turned to the woodland creatures venerated by his own Chickasaw Nation. The ...

For what it’s worth, the Beatles stayed together for about a decade. The Kronos Quartet, a boundary-pushing string ensemble, has lasted more than five times as long — 52 years and counting — though ...

Charlie Parker was a magnificent jazz artist, one of the music’s three or four most vital and influential players. But one rarely thinks of him as a maker of hits, as the sort of musician whose work ...

What kind of group can combine hip-hop-style samples with other unique musical elements, including one song with vocals from a parrot? Ethel, the innovative string quartet, uses this musical mix on ...

The Brentano String Quartet, (from left) violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, cellist Nina Lee and violist Misha Amory, performed String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5 by Franz Josef Haydn ...

Of all the death-haunted composers in history, Schubert and Mahler stand close to the top. Some of their most compelling music in this vein -- Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B-flat, the slow movements ...