One of the summits of Viennese classicism, Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross—a sequence of seven sacred adagios, with an intro and conclusion—is available in arrangements for string… ...
LEWISBURG — Britain’s world-renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet will be in residence at Bucknell University in February. The quartet will give four concerts, meet with classes and present several ...
In its heyday the Fitzwilliam Quartet was famous for its association with Shostakovich. They worked with him and recorded all his quartets, the first group to do so. But for the most part this ...
Forty years ago this month, Dmitri Shostakovich joined a packed audience in the Lyons to hear the Fitzwilliam give the second European performance of his Thirteenth Quartet (they had given the first ...
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THIS fascinating new disc from the revered Fitzwilliam String Quartet with guest violist James Boyd almost reconciles the strands of what I call “the Bruckner problem”. The Austrian is a “love him or ...
THE 2010 York Late Music Concert Series welcomes Trio Atem and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet to the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, tomorrow. Trio Atem’s Nina Whiteman, soprano, Gavin Osborn, ...
In an interview with Jon Tolansky, the Fitzwilliam Quartet's Alan George recalls the time when Shostakovich came to hear them play the UK premiere of the Thirteenth Quartet In November 1972, Dmitri ...
Due to unforseen circumstances, the Greenwich Piano Trio will be unable to give the concert this week. Instead, we will be joined by the world famous Fitzwilliam String Quartet. The Fitzwilliam is now ...