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On Sunday, August 30 at 3:00 pm, the Sunrise String Quartet, which has performed at the Kennedy Center and the Corcoran Museum, will join pianist Brian Ganz, one of the leading pianists of his ...

Haydn's "Sunrise" String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 4, in B-flat earns its nickname right at the beginning, with a luminous violin solo that ascends out of the ensemble texture like dawn rising. It was a ...

The delicately glowing opening of the “Sunrise” Quartet is one of the most magical moments in all of Haydn’s string quartets, and this gentle aurora will introduce us to a new generation of musicians.

Joseph Haydn didn’t provide the nickname for his “Sunrise” string quartet. His admirers came up with it, inspired by the opening theme’s natural, steady, inevitable ascent. The moniker has stuck, and ...