All carducci quartet articles

News

Wigmore Hall unveils programme of 40 live-streamed concerts

2021-02-17T14:19:00Z

More than 200 players will have the chance to play at the London venue over the next six weeks

Review

Festival review: Ryedale Festival 2020

2020-09-25T10:41:00Z

Peter Quantrill watches some fine performances from the Ryedale Festival, held in the Yorkshire Dales from 19 to 26 July

Review

Concert review: Carducci Quartet

2020-01-03T15:02:00Z

Peter Quantrill visits London’s Conway Hall for the performance on 17 November 2019

Article

‘There is an underlying sense of foreboding’

2019-12-29T15:16:00Z

Marking the twelve days of the festive season, The Strad presents quotes from the archive. Today, the Carducci Quartet players discuss subtext in Shostakovich’s string quartets

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Seeing the light

2019-12-29T13:24:00Z

This August the musicians of the Carducci Quartet will take on one of the great quartet challenges when they mark 40 years since Shostakovich’s death by performing his complete quartet cycle in a single day. They share their reasons for doing so with Chloe Cutts

Debate

Are completist concerts too much of a good thing?

2015-07-22T00:00:00Z

Completist concerts are often criticised for serving up an ‘event’ instead of serving the music. But this kind of programming can reveal narratives in the music that would otherwise be hidden, argues Chloe Cutts