'Janácek bombarded Kamilla Stosslova with letters, three or four times a week," Heath Quartet leader Oliver Heath told us, "Even though the relationship was going nowhere. She only replied two or ...

Michael Tippett (1905-98) wrote five string quartets in the course of his long life. The first was premiered in 1935, the second and third in the 40s, a fourth in 1979 and the last in 1992. The ...

Percy Heath, the superb bassist who for more than 40 years provided the sublime underpinnings for the Modern Jazz Quartet, died Thursday of bone cancer at a hospital in Southampton, N.Y. He was 81. Mr ...

Bartók’s six string quartets are arguably the most important contribution to the medium after Beethoven, and they plot his evolution as a composer more completely than any other group of his works. Of ...

AS its first guests for the New Year, Perth Chamber Music had one of Britain’s foremost string quartets: The Heath Quartet. The quartet played a programme of Haydn, Janacek and Beethoven with polished ...