Los Angeles Times

How Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet turned the sun’s radiance into the most moving music

Here comes the sun — again. Alive to a radiant democratic spirit taking hold in Europe and alongside a new appreciation of the natural world, the 40-year-old Joseph Haydn composed six revolutionary ...
Los Angeles Times

St. Lawrence String Quartet’s rare marathon of early Haydn is in-your-face exhilarating

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...
NPR

A Feast Of Haydn String Quartets At WGBH

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.
Houston Chronicle

St. Lawrence String Quartet honors Haydn

The St. Lawrence String Quartet is on a mission to promote the composer who made the string quartet the cornerstone of chamber music. It was the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, back in the 1700s, who ...
WUNC

The Takacs Quartet's Haydn: Brilliant, But With A Bite

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...