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.

In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...

The London Haydn Quartet are working their way through their eponymous composer's string quartets slowly and chronologically; Hyperion released the Op 9 set in 2007, while those of Op 17 came out two ...

WORCESTER - Haydn is among the composers who will be featured when Music Worcester presents the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The chamber ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence at Stanford University.

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...