I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

135 quartet was premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet in March 1828.

The String Quartet No. 5 was composed in 1934, and the sixth and last string quartet in 1939.

In 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded Time Out, an album their label was enthusiastic about but nonetheless hesitant to release.

At their peak in the early ' 60s, the Brubeck Quartet was releasing as many as four albums a year.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Zemlinsky, moreover, was in turn the teacher of Arnold Schoenberg, and Brahms was apparently impressed by two movements of Schoenberg's early Quartet in D major which Zemlinsky showed him.

Fellow Traveler ( 2007 ): This piece was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by Greg G. Minshall, and was dedicated to opera and theater director Peter Sellars for his 50th birthday.

In 1970, Hasan Sel was replaced by Taner Öngür, previously a member of Meteorlar ( Meteors ) and the Erkin Koray Quartet.

In 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ), the first Expressionist play ( produced with scandal in 1909 ), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, his first composition " without a tonal center ".

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.

Because of the war he was evacuated together with a large number of other artists, initially to the Caucasus where he composed his Second String Quartet.

His most enduring relationship, however, was with the music of Thelonious Monk: he recorded the first album to feature only Monk compositions ( Reflections, Prestige, 1958 ) and briefly played in Monk's band in 1960 and later on Monk's Big Band / Quartet album ( Columbia, 1963 ).

Mark Snow also commented that the fast percussion featured in some tracks was inspired by the track " Prospectors Quartet " from the There Will Be Blood soundtrack.

The version of the song was recorded with Kronos Quartet, with Greg Cohen, Philip Glass, and The Dalai Lama at the benefit concert " Healing The Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation " at Avery Fisher Hall, recorded on September 21, 2003.

The most famous recording of the song was credited to " Billy Murray and the Haydn Quartet ", even though Murray did not sing on it.

A String Quartet in C minor Bruckner composed in 1862 was discovered decades after Bruckner's death.

Ravel's String Quartet in F, probably modeled on Debussy ’ s Quartet ( 1893 ), is now a standard work of chamber music, though at the time it was criticized and found lacking academically.

39, and the work that first brought Goldmark's name into prominence in the Viennese musical world, the String Quartet in B-flat Op.

Björk's performance at the Union Chapel with the Brodsky Quartet was met with enthusiasm by The Guardian journalist Maddy Costa, that described the performance as a " Heavenly Experience " and, commenting the song's performance, stated that " reclaiming " Play Dead " from ad-land, the subdued volume and the Brodskys ’ bristling tone brought out the fierceness of Björk ’ s words ".

With more than 200 recordings to his credit, his music has brought him on stage or in the studio to perform with entertainers in a variety of music fields: Carl Perkins ; Charlie Daniels ; Peabo Bryson ; The Whites ; Ricky Skaggs ; Kitty Wells ; Pee Wee King ; Jimmy Dickens ; Jeff and Sheri Easter ; The Lewis Family ; The Isaacs ; The Primitive Quartet ; Bill Monroe ; Jim and Jesse ; Ralph Stanley ; Raymond Fairchild ; Jimmy Martin ; Mac Wiseman ; Chubby Wise ; Josh Graves ; Doug Dillard ; Jerry Douglas ; Sam Bush ; Byron Berline ; The Warrior River Boys ; The Sand Mountain Boys ; The Gary Waldrep Band ; The Cox Family ; The Sidemen ; Elaine and Shorty ; “ Doc ” Tommy Scott ’ s Last Real Old Time Medicine Show.

* December 4-The Million Dollar Quartet ( Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash ) get together at Sun Studios for the first and last time in history.

In an extraordinary concert there in 1949, the Budapest Quartet performed the composer's 14th String Quartet, followed by the Paganini's performance of his 15th ; and then both ensembles played the two pieces together as an octet.

The First String Quartet No. 1 in G minor ( 1889 ) was innovative in the " Résumé " section which Nielsen included in the finale, bringing together themes from the first, third and fourth movements.

And I repeat to you, sir, that part of my frustrations were alleviated with the Quartet making the statement it made the other day -- the Quartet being the EU, Russia, United Nations and the United States, working together.

The same year, he founded the New York String Quartet together with violinists Sam Franko and Henry Boewig, and violist Ludwig Schenck.

During the increasingly intense match, Freddie suddenly bursts out of the arena, leaving the chessboard on the floor (" Chess # 1 ") and Florence to pick up the pieces with Anatoly, Molokov, and The Arbiter, whereby she promises to bring Freddie and Anatoly together in order to diplomatically revive the tournament (" Quartet: A Model of Decorum and Tranquility ").

An earlier quartet featuring Dorham as co-leader with alto saxophone player Ernie Henry had released an album together under the name " Kenny Dorham / Ernie Henry Quartet ".

The Boskovsky Quartet, together with Johann Krump ( double-bass ), Alfred Boskovsky ( clarinet ), Josef Veleba ( horn ) and Rudolf Hanzl ( bassoon ) formed the Vienna Octet.

They spent a lot of time together at Marlboro and the Guarneri Quartet may be regarded as the musical heirs of the Budapest Quartet.

The Guarneri Quartet was formed at Marlboro in 1964 ; Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, a long-standing duo, concertized together as a duo for the first time at Marlboro, on August 3, 1973.

They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including Crook's Tour ( 1941 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ), Dead of Night ( 1945 ), Quartet ( 1948 ), It's Not Cricket ( 1949 ) and Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ).

After singing with The Blackwood Brothers Quartet for 47 years, James ( together with four other veteran gospel singers, Hovie Lister, Jake Hess, J. D. Sumner and Rosie Rozell ) formed the Masters V Quartet, the highlight being a joint concert with The Rivertown Boys in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Since 1993, Wu Man has also regularly performed and recorded with the Kronos Quartet, their most recent work together being the multi-media work, A Chinese Home directed by Chen Shi-Zheng.

Wood & Cutting, together with Karen Tweed and Ian Carr, make up the Two Duos Quartet, who have made one album Half as happy as we.

Aside from a one time performance at the 1984 National Quartet Convention by Sam, Rusty, Howard and Vestal, the Happy Goodmans did not sing together from 1984 to 1990.

Hubay and Popper had supported Sándor Végh and Feri Roth in the formation of quartets, and were themselves part of an earlier Budapest Quartet, the new quartet being named partly in honour of that.

Brubeck's disbanding of the Quartet at the end of 1967 allowed him more time to compose the longer, extended orchestral and choral works that were occupying his attention ( to say nothing of Brubeck's desire to spend more time with his family ).

* 1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.

In January 2010, at a meeting of the Quartet on the Middle East, representatives from the European Union and Russia suggested reopening Orient House and other Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem as a way of bringing the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table.

Desmond also joined The Modern Jazz Quartet for a Christmas concert in 1971 at the New York Town Hall.

He appeared with the Paul Desmond Quartet at the Edmonton Jazz Festival.

Ron Carter Quartet play at " Altes Pfandhaus " in Cologne, Germany ( October 2008 )

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

He became a member of the " Hill City Quartet ," a group of young men who sang at gatherings and serenaded young women of the town.

* Thelonious Monk Quartet Live at the Five Spot: Discovery!

* Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall ( 1957, released 2005 on Blue Note.

He secured a teaching post at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he collaborated with Henri Temianka and the Paganini Quartet.

The following year, these same pieces were performed at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, by the Paganini and Juilliard Quartet.

Some of Nielsen's string chamber works were performed at this time, including a Quartet in F which he considered his official debut as a professional composer.

The four-minute piece in E flat minor was first performed by the Gade Quartet at Oluf Hartmann ’ s funeral on 21 January in the chapel at Holmen ’ s Cemetery in Copenhagen and was also played at Nielsen's own funeral.

The 2010 tribute Million Dollar Quartet is based on the famous photograph of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis grouped round Elvis Presley at the piano, the night when the four joined in an impromptu jam at Sun Record's one-room sound studio, the " Million Dollar Quartet " of 4 December 1956.