The venerable Guarneri String Quartet (it is always called venerable these days) stopped by Samueli Theater on Wednesday night to say goodbye. The group is retiring at the end of the season and is ...

Plenty of trios and quartets exist in the classical-music world. An octet is a rarer bird. On Saturday, an octet with impeccable lineage will land with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber ...

The Mendelssohn Octet will end Monday’s concert in Auer Hall, following two contemporary string quartets, one by Shulamit Ran, her Quartet No. 3, “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory” and Gyorgy Ligeti’s ...

Eleven of the world’s most renowned string artists converge: violinists Carolin Widmann and Benjamin Beilman, bassist Nina Bernat, and the doubly dynamic Viano and Opus13 quartets! The World Premiere ...

At age 16 — please repeat, 16 — Felix Mendelssohn composed one of the most miraculous pieces of chamber music of the last two centuries. His Octet for Strings in E-flat Major is a pedal-to-the-metal ...