John Lennon.

They were the band. And they made the music. From the free-spirit energy of “Please, Please Me” through the experimental exuberance of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album to the exquisite romanticism of Abbey Road, the Beatles made rock art and art rock. Revolutions ignited, cultures exploded, and minds expanded to the backbeat of a youth-world soundtrack by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr.

The String Quartet Tribute to the Beatles mixes down the legend to the pure, brash, melodic beauty of the music. These pop-masterpiece performances by four different string quartets span the Beatles’ career with creations as perfect as Bach, as passionate as Beethoven and as rocking as the Liverpool basement club they burst out of forty years ago to launch John, Paul, George and Ringo-mania. The Beatles are rock and roll Relativity – the world ages, their music stays forever young.