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 ...
The Arts Desk

'These were the quartets that made us fall in love with the genre': Dudok Quartet Amsterdam on Haydn

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: Judith van Driel (violin 1), Marleen Wester (violin 2), Marie-Louise de Jong (viola) & David Faber (cello) The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart ...
Gramophone

Haydn String Quartets Op.17

Gut-strung instruments are used here, and the recording very clearly reproduces the subtleties they convey. Watch your volume though because the transfer level is rather high. The violins are ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Scotland’s Maxwell String Quartet returns to San Diego, sans kilts

Scottish folk music played alongside works by Haydn and Beethoven? That would be surprising coming from any chamber-music group — unless it’s the Maxwell String Quartet. For the Maxwells, who are ...