All Danish Quartet articles
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VideoThe Danish Quartet performs ‘Once a shoemaker’ (featuring a clog fiddle!)
The original composition by violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen will feature on the quartet’s upcoming album Keel Road
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ReviewConcert review: Danish Quartet, Johannes Rostamo (cello)
Leah Hollingsworth hears the performance of Schubert, Adès and Nielsen at the Zankel Hall in New York’s Carnegie Hall on 18 April 2024
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VideoThe Danish Quartet performs ‘Danny Boy’
Enjoy a string quartet arrangement of a classic Irish folk tune ahead of St Patrick’s Day on 17 March
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ReviewConcert review: Danish Quartet, Jeremy Denk (piano)
Edward Bhesania hears the performance of Ligeti, Mozart and Schumann at London’s Wigmore Hall on 15 September 2023
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ReviewConcert review: Danish Quartet & Friends: Series of Four
Andrew Mellor reports on a performance from the ‘Series of Four’ concerts, taking place at Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Academy of Music on 19 March 2023
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Ambitious in the way we prepared, not about where we wanted to be’: 20 years of the Danish Quartet
Andrew Mellor talks to the Danish Quartet as they embark on their 20th-anniversary season
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NewsThe Strad March 2023 issue is out now!
Andrew Mellor speaks to the members of the Danish Quartet as they celebrate their 20th anniversary
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ReviewConcert review: Danish Quartet
Tim Homfray hears a performance of Purcell, Mozart and Britten at London’s Wigmore Hall 23 September 2022
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ReviewConcert review: Danish Quartet
Leah Hollingsworth hears an innovative programme of Charpentier, Adams, Blumenfeld, Schumann and Schubert at the Shriver Hall Concert Series, Baltimore, on 19 April 2022
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BlogsThe Danish Quartet: ’Our string quartet is the pot into which we can each pour our personal dreams and ideas’
Violist of the Danish Quartet Asbjørn Nørgaard shares the ensemble’s need to further explore string quartet repertoire through its Prism project
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VideoMolto adagio: the Danish Quartet perform Beethoven op.132
Here’s the devastatingly beautiful third movement of Beethoven’s late quartet
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ReviewDanish Quartet: Prism III
Adventurous quartet finds connections between pioneering chamber works
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ReviewConcert review: Danish Quartet
Leah Hollingsworth watches the Scandinavian foursome perform at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on 11 February 2020
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ReviewDanish Quartet: Prism II
Danish Quartet: Prism II The Strad Issue: November 2019 Description: Three composers seen through a glittering Nordic prismMusicians: Danish QuartetWorks: BACH Fugue in B minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1) (arr. Emanuel Aloys Förster) SCHNITTKE String Quartet no.3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B flat major op.130Catalogue Number: ECM ...
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FocusHow do you notate the music of aural tradition?
In this article from our December issue Violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin from the Danish Quartet speak to Andrew Mellor about the difficulties of notating music passed down by aural tradition
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NewsThe Strad December 2018 issue is out now
Vilde Frang on her unusual path to international acclaim, and the unlikely pairing of works on her new album
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VideoDanish String Quartet: Last Leaf
The Danish String Quartet performs a track from their recent album of folk song arrangements, Last Leaf, reviewed in The Strad as having a ’magical atmosphere’. The musicians are: Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen: violin, harmonium; Frederik Øland: violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard: viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin: violoncello
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ReviewDanish Quartet: Last Leaf
Atmospheric arrangements of Nordic fiddle dances for string quartet
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ReviewAdès: Arcadiana; Nørgård: Quartetto Breve; Abrahamsen:Ten Preludes
The Strad Issue: August 2016 Description: Adventurous programming for the Danish Quartet’s ECM debut Musicians: Danish Quartet Composer: Adès, Nørgård, Abrahamsen Catalogue number: ECM 481 2385 The Danish Quartet is surely one of ...