This outstanding young ensemble, members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, tackles two of Britten's quartets, thrilling masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire written 30 years apart.

What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

Two distinguished quartets go head-to-head in works that are among the composer’s most traditional in tone and formal in construction Britten: String Quartets 1, 2, 3 and Three Divertimenti; String ...

Anyone who heard the Takács play Britten's three quartets at the Wigmore Hall in London a year ago will know what to expect from this superb recording, made two months later. Other groups might bring ...

Britten’s music oddly became more alive in the 1970s, after a long period of increasing solemnity following the failure of Gloriana and the Snape Maltings fire in the late 1960s. His three numbered ...

There is tough competition in the Britten quartet discography – the Belceas and Brodskys head a crowded field – but the young Elias String Quartet are well worth hearing. They play with freshness and ...

The Doric Quartet’s beautiful Britten cycle was recorded in tandem with a series of concerts, greatly admired, in Snape Maltings last October. They describe it themselves as a ‘milestone’ since their ...

On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 4pm, the Chiara String Quartet(Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) will perform a concert presented by the ...

One of the final Britten releases from last year (the centenary of his birth) was this masterful recording of the composer’s three numbered string quartets. These are among Britten’s better-known ...

Benjamin Britten wrote the first two of his numbered string quartets in 1941 and 1945. The First was in the US, where it was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; the Second was written for the ...