The Brentano String Quartet is a frequent visitor to Northern New Mexico, and always a welcome one. Santa Fe Pro Musica hosts their visit this week, when they will perform at St. Francis Auditorium ...

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NORFOLK — Three contrasting compositions made up the Brentano String Quartet’s concert Monday evening at Ohef Sholom Temple in Norfolk, part of the Virginia Arts Festival’s Chamber Music Series. It ...

One piece dominated this delightful Sunday morning concert. Because they comprise just four instruments with each possessing its own line, there is a certain feeling of purity that derives from the ...

The Brentano String Quartet, an outstanding young ensemble which has appeared in New York, London, Salzburg and Rome, took the Lied Center stage Sunday afternoon. The program of Mozart, Webern and ...

What’s in a name? In the case of the Brentano String Quartet, the answer is a little irony. The quartet, which performs tonight at Lehigh University, is named after Antonia Brentano, a 19th-century ...

After hearing this tremendous Sunday evening concert, my mind kept floating back to the question of greatness. What are its qualities? What differentiates a first-rate performance from a great one?

Beethoven’s final composition lacks a cleverly descriptive title, unlike Messiaen’s “Quartet for the end of time,” or even R.E.M.’s, “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine).” Even ...

After 15 years, it’s time for the Brentano Quartet to move on. Princeton University’s performers-in-residence will take up a new home at Yale School of Music, beginning in the fall. But they leave ...

The Brentano Quartet, now in its third decade, has forged a clean, light-textured style and offers sometimes bracing ideas about familiar literature. In two large Beethoven quartets at the Wolf Trap ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | Brentano String Quartet By Vivien Schweitzer Beethoven, inspired by the tomb scene from “Romeo and Juliet,” wrote “les derniers soupirs ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Allan Kozinn It says a lot for Stephen Hartke’s “Night Songs for a Desert Flower” (2009) that when the Brentano String Quartet ...