WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

The Angeles String Quartet makes a move toward international prominence with the release next week of a 21-CD set of the complete Haydn string quartets on a major label (Philips). It’s an event ...

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which, ...

In a move that stunned local arts patrons, the Los Angeles-based Angeles String Quartet has announced it is disbanding after more than 13 years. The decision was all the more surprising because the ...

Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.