Back by popular demand for their third appearance on our series, the Belcea Quartet returns with the kind of electrifying intensity that makes time stand still. “Still playing like a young quartet, ...

The repertoire for string quartet was rich before Bela Bartok took up the genre in the first decade of the 20th century. But the Hungarian composer stretched tradition in every direction, creating six ...

With this line-up the quartet has developed a style of quartet playing which favours bravura and extroversion. Their big gestures are very much at home in larger concert halls, and stem from what ...

The Belcea String Quartet brought intensity and flair to its latest concert appearance for Capital Region Classical, now entering its 52 nd year. There was clock-like precision to the playful Scherzo ...

The Belcea Quartet, one of Europe’s finest string quartets, will make its third trip to Buffalo in five concert seasons for an appearance at UB on Oct. 18. The quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. in ...

The Belcea String Quartet and The Israeli Chamber Project will visit UB this week for the first concerts in the Department of Music’s Slee Visiting Artist Series for 2021-22. The series will open with ...

The repertoire for string quartet is so rich and vast that it's no wonder so many musicians band together to pursue professional careers in the field. Among the most poised and probing these days is ...

MIDDLEBURY Britain s Belcea Quartet does something quite unusual for a young ensemble in this day of sound-alike string quartets. It has a unique sound and approach and, at Thursday s performance at ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage's music has a reedy, brassy edge, with string instruments supporting rather than featuring prominently, so it's no surprise that he has composed little music for strings alone. A ...

Completing their national tour for Musica Viva, the London-based Belcea Quartet performed in the City Recital Hall in a program that was as stimulating as it was rewarding. This young quartet, named ...

2 of 6 — The Belcea Quartet's violinists Corina Belcea and Axel Schacher, walk onstage just before playing Beethoven's String Quartet in E flat, Op. 127. 3 of 6 — Beethoven had left the string quartet ...

There comes a time in the life of most string quartets when, for better or worse, Beethoven must be confronted. For the acclaimed Belcea Quartet (named after its first violinist Corina Belcea), that ...