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FocusThe harmonious string quartet - a balance of four personality types
No one said that living in a quartet was easy - but the most successful groups develop a unique identity that survives vitriolic relationships and even personnel changes, writes Paul Robertson
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Jerry Horner: A Virtuoso Teacher
In February last year, former Fine Arts Quartet violist Jerry Horner died at the age of 83. China Conservatory of Music violin professor and past Horner student James Dickenson reflects on the career and teaching legacy of a fine mentor, drawing on interviews with Horner’s students and colleagues, and ...
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Blogs
11 ways to be a better chamber musician
Violinist, composer and chamber music festival founder Natalie Klouda writes the advice she would like to have been given when she was starting out
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Horror in Haddington with the Vision String Quartet
On tour in Scotland the Vision String Quartet spends the night in an old house. But something seems to be wrong…
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The Opus 76 Quartet play Haydn’s op.76 no.4 ‘Sunrise’
The Kansas City based Opus 76 Quartet here perform one of the works from which they took their name
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Spektral Quartet: George Crumb’s Black Angels
The Chicago based quartet performs Crumb’s most iconic work for strings, Black Angels (pt 1, ‘Departure’)
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Semi-finalists named at Nielsen Chamber Music Competition
Event in Copenhagen puts five quartets through to second round taking place on Friday
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Nielsen Chamber Music Competition begins in Copenhagen
Seven string quartets and eight wind quintets compete this week in the second edition of the competition
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Takács Quartet to welcome new violist in 2020
As the group celebrates its 45th year, Richard O’Neill will take over from Geraldine Walther
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Trio finalists revealed in Trondheim
The three ensembles will compete in Friday’s final for a top prize of €15,000 plus concert engagements
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Goldmund Quartet picks up €60k award – plus a full set of Strads
German group is new recipient of Paganini quartet from Nippon Foundation and award from Jürgen Ponto Foundation
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Bruckner’s String Quintet in F major
Performed by Alina Ibragimova, Amihai Grosz, Anne Gastinel, Gijs Kramer and Liza Ferschtman during the 2013 Delft Chamber Music Festival. Filmed by 24 Classics 00:00 Gemäßigt. Moderato 12:58 Scherzo: Schnell 17:59 Trio: Langsamer 20:41 Adagio 35:29 Finale: Lebhaft bewegt
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Arensky: Quartet for violin, viola, and two cellos
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall, this performance took place as part of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on 3 May this year. It features the first movement of Anton Arensky’s Quartet No. 2 in A minor for Violin, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 35. ...
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Bridging the gap from Conservatoire to becoming a professional musician
Cellist Mary Elliott-Rose on her finding her professional self through chamber music, and creating opportunities for others at the Cowbridge Music Festival
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Young string quartets head to Banff for international competition
Starting next week, the triennial competition has turbocharged the careers of several past winners
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Kanneh-Mason Trio performs Deep River
Performed by the Kanneh-Mason Trio, this is an arrangement of the traditional spiritual Deep River. It is based on the 1904 piano arrangement by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The trio comprises the Kanneh-Mason siblings Sheku (cello), Isata (piano) and Braimah (violin), and this recording is being released by Decca as their ...
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Review
Paolo Pandolfo: Regina Bastarda
An attractive programme on instruments that are entirely legitimate
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Magic Flute for string quartet
The Quatuor Zaïde perform a trancription of the Queen of the Night Aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The group has recently released a recording of the a selection of highlights from the opera, as arranged by an anonymous contemporary of the composer. The video was ...
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Review
Trio Wanderer: Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Suk
Plenty of moody Russian emotion in this impressive programme
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Passing the Torch
Expert encouragement in their early years helped turn the Belcea Quartet into one of today’s most formidable chamber ensembles. Twenty-five years after they started out, they talk to Tom Stewart about passing on their experience to the next generation – as well as continuing to gain knowledge themselves
