In 1825, Beethoven wrote a missive to his nephew describing his recovery from an illness and its transformative effect on one of his last and most significant works — the String Quartet No. 15 in A ...

The Shanghai Quartet — L to R, violinists Weigang Li and Angelo Xiang Yu, cellist Sihao He and violist Honggang Li — in a Dallas Chamber Music Society concert at Southern Methodist University's Caruth ...

I have a friend who cannot abide ‘late’ Beethoven and I’d hazard a guess that the five-movement Quartet in A minor, Op 132, with its worldly shy ‘Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the ...