“Fugue: A term in continuous use among musicians since the 14 th century, when it was introduced. . . to designate a piece of music based on canonic imitation.” Paul M. Walker; Grove Music Online.

The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

The Delgani String Quartet returns to Salem on Sunday, Jan. 22, with “Art of the Fugue.” A fugue is a composition where a short melody is introduced by one part, then taken up by others and developed ...

The Diderot String Quartet will bring the music of J.S. Bach — and the man who might have saved him from obscurity — to St. James Episcopal Church on Friday. The 7:30 p.m. concert, “Bach to the Future ...

There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...

PUTNEY >> Yellow Barn presents its second Artist Residency concert of the 2015-2016 season on Friday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. at West Village Meeting House, South St., Brattleboro. Since Johann Sebastian ...

Join Keynote String Quartet live for an epic night featuring Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13, Op.130 with the Grosse Fugue! Keynote String Quartet Presents Beethoven String Quartet No. 13, Op.130 ...

It's hard to imagine a work less suited to string quartet than Bach's Art of Fugue, and yet the Emerson String Quartet braved this vast contrapuntal edifice in their latest Wigmore Hall concert. Bach ...

A confusion of Babel...' one critic noted in 1826 but this work for string quartet was just vastly ahead of its time. Nearly 200 years later it still challenges players and listeners. Now that's ...