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.

Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.20, No.3Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.20, No.3 ...

The London Haydn Quartet, playing period instruments, accept them unreservedly. As may have Donald Tovey, who said, “Not even Op 76 is, on its own plane, so uniformly weighty and so varied in ...

The Castalian String Quartet: violinists Daniel Roberts and Sini Simonen, viola-plater Ruth Gibson and cellist Steffan Morris Haydn's E flat Quartet, Op. 20 No. 1 favoured her throughout - the ...