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.

(6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 4 in B flat, 'Sunrise' Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', Movements: No. 5 in D Chiaroscuro Quartet (6) String Quartets, 'Erdödy', ...

Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...

(6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: C Lindsay Qt Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: F minor Lindsay Qt Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String ...

A disc of 21 mazurkas, far from concentrating on too narrow a spectrum, only goes to show the variety of emotion and poetic expression that Chopin embodied in these sublime pieces. That impression is ...

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.