Soprano Ailyn Perez and tenor Stephen Costello met in music school. Now married, the couple sings together around the world — as in Gounod's Romeo and Juliet at Opera Philadelphia in 2001. Kelly & Massa Photography/Opera Philadelphia hide caption
Emerson String Quartet
David Finckel is a longtime member of the Emerson String Quartet. Journeys: Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg is his last recording with the group. Christian Steiner/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Emerson Quartet cellist David Finckel decodes the String Quartet No. 8.
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Violin Concerto, Op. 14 [Allegro]
The Emerson Quartet play Beethoven at the Savannah Music Festival. From left: Philip Setzer, Eugene Drucker, David Finckel and Lawrence Dutton Frank Stewart /Savannah Music Festival hide caption
Beethoven's String Quartet Of Transcendence
Cellist David Finckel (l) with his colleagues of more than 30 years. Lisa-Marie Mazzucco/courtesy of the artists hide caption
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The Emerson Quartet. Mitch Jenkins/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Ted Libbey and Fred Child Recommend The Beethoven String Quartets
An engraving of Franz Schubert, a year before he wrote his famed String Quintet in C. Getty / Hulton Archive hide caption
Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe (right) take on everything from Michael Jackson to Mozart on When Words Fade. Brent Cline hide caption
Violist Nicholas Cords likes his Japanese soba noodles on the quiet side. iStock hide caption
The Emerson String Quartet.
J Henry Fair/courtesy of the artists hide captionString Quartet No. 23 in F major ("Prussian 3"), K. 590 [4. Allegro]
The Emerson Quartet's latest passion is the late string quartets by Dvorak. Lisa-Marie Mazzucco hide caption