All cypress-quartet articles
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ReviewElena Ruehr Quartets nos.1-6 – Cypress Quartet, Borromeo Quartet
Proof that, as a genre, the string quartet still has legs
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ReviewBeethoven Six String Quartets op.18
The Strad Issue: August 2016 Description: The Cypress bows out with Beethoven’s early set of six string quartets Musicians: Cypress Quartet Composer: Beethoven Catalogue number: AVIE AV 2348 (Two CDs) The Cypress Quartet ...
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NewsCypress String Quartet to disband after 20 years together
The San Francisco-based ensemble has recorded the complete quartets of Beethoven on Avie
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ReviewBeethoven: String Quartets in F major op.59 no.1, in E minor op.59 no.2, in C major op.59 no.3, in E flat major op.74 & in F minor op.95
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Disappointingly safe accounts of the middle-period quartetsMusicians: Cypress QuartetComposer: BeethovenThe Cypress Quartet celebrated its 15th anniversary with a three-CD set of Beethoven’s late quartets in which the playing is technically refined, if occasionally ‘underwhelming’, with ‘a degree of ordinariness’ (as reviewed in ...