All quartet articles – Page 2
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ReviewDoric Quartet: Mendelssohn String Quartets vol.1
Structured readings that also capture the intense emotions of the music
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BlogsA 6-point plan for exploring contemporary music
Ross Snyder, first violin for the Tesla Quartet, offers encouragement and a practical primer on incorporating new music into your chamber repertoire
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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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ReviewEybler Quartet: Beethoven Quartets op.18 nos.1-3
Subtly restrained period instrument performances prove that less is more
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NewsLark Quartet calls it quits after 34 years
Pioneering all-female ensemble based in New York will be playing final concerts in 2019
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NewsTen Stradivarius instruments brought together for D.C. concert
Library of Congress collection joined by ‘Paganini’ quartet for special event. Philip J. Kass reports
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NewsMilan Škampa, 1928-2018: the last of the Smetana Quartet
Milan Škampa, for many years violist of the Smetana Quartet and the last survivor of the six men who played in the group, died at his Prague home on 14 April. He would have turned 90 in June.
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ReviewRagazze Quartet: Spiegel: Works by Mendelssohn and Beethoven
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet no.2 in A minor op.13; BEETHOVEN String Quartet no.15 in A minor op.132
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VideoThe Quartetto di Cremona performs Mozart's 'Dissonance' Quartet (first movement)
Filmed live at the Sala Verdi in Milan, this video features the Quartetto di Cremona performing the first movement of Mozart’s String Quartet no.19 in C major, K465, known as the ‘Dissonance’ Quartet due to its experimental slow introduction.
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VideoAmernet String Quartet plays Beethoven 'Pathétique' Sonata, op. 13 (arr. Jeffery Briggs)
The Amernet String Quartet presents the first recorded installment of the complete (New) Beethoven Quartets, a reimagining by composer Jeffery Briggs of all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas. The Amernet String Quartet are Misha Vitenson, Franz Felkl, violins; Michael Klotz, viola; Jason Calloway, cello. www.amernetquartet.com jefferylbriggs.com
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ReviewNowakovski: String Quartet no.1 ‘Songs of Forgiveness’; Blood, Forgotten1; String Quartet no.2 ‘Grandfather Songs’; Lullaby: O Sleep for Me, Sleep
The Strad Issue: September 2017Description: Ancestral sorrows explored in contemporary string quartetsMusicians: Emily Ondracek-Peterson (violin), Voxare Quartet Composer: Nowakowski Catalogue Number: NAXOS 8.559821 The Polish heritage of American composer Mark Nowakowski (b.1978) is a guiding spirit in these chamber works. The subtitles ...
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NewsViolinist, quartet and double bassist in new intake of BBC New Generation Artists
BBC Radio 3’s young classical talent platform accepts Aleksey Semenenko, Quatuor Arod and Misha Mullov-Abbado
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NewsMilan Škampa presented with International Viola Society award
Milan Škampa, violist of the Smetana Quartet from 1956 until the ensemble disbandment in 1989, has been awarded the International Viola Society’s highest award, the Silver Alto Clef, for the year 2016. IVS president – and long-time contributor to The Strad – Carlos María Solare visited Dr ...
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NewsViolist Tetsuumi Nagata joins the Piatti Quartet
The Canadian-born musician replaces violist David Wigram, who has left the ensemble due to injury
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ArticleBeethoven: String Quartets in G major op.18 no.2, in C major op.59 no.3 ‘Rasumovsky’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: May 2017 Description: Fresh interpretations where nothing is taken for grantedMusicians: Cremona QuartetComposer: BeethovenCatalogue number: AUDITE 92.689 (hybrid SACD) Recorded in a warm, open acoustic, the striking range of sonorities created by the Cremona Quartet fall easily on the ear. Technically ...
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ArticleSaariaho: Chamber Works for Strings vol.2
The Strad Issue: February 2017 Description: Finnish musicians continue their survey of Saariaho's quartet worksMusicians: Meta4, Pia Freund (soprano)Composer: Kaija SaariahoCatalogue number: ONDINE ODE 1242-2 Meta4’s second instalment of quartet works by Kaija Saariaho sees the Finnish composer at her best and worst, and it’s a thin ...
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ArticleCaetani: String Quartets: in D major op.1 no.1, in F minor op.12
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Sensitive performances of this 'missing link' between Brahms and SchoenbergMusicians: Alauda QuartetComposer: CaetaniCatalogue number: BRILLIANT CLASSICS 95198 The effusively Romantic music of Roffredo Caetani (1871–1961) forms an unlikely but persuasive calling-card for a young, UK-based quartet, formed in 2011 at London’s Royal ...
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ArticleBrahms: String Quartet no.3 in B flat major op.67; Three Songs, Schoenberg: String Quartet no.2 in F sharp minor op.10
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: The Kuss players continue to make ear-opening musical juxtapositionsMusicians: Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Kuss QuartetComposer: Brahms, SchoenbergCatalogue number: ONYX 4166 The Kuss Quartet’s first disc for Onyx paired Schubert and Berg. This new one offers a similar juxtaposition but with two composers in ...
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ArticleBartók: String Quartet no.3, Dvorák: String Quartet no.11 in C major op.61, Mozart: String Quartet no.20 in D major K499 ‘Hoffmeister'
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Salzburg recordings from 1965 in slightly compromised soundMusicians: Juilliard QuartetComposer: Bartók, Dvorák, MozartCatalogue number: ORFEO C927 161B Live Juilliard performances can be illuminating, but here the tape imparts a tremulous quality to the strings. In a purposeful Allegretto to Mozart’s ‘Hoffmeister’, tangy ...
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ReviewHaydn: String Quartets op.20 nos.1–3 (‘Sun’)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: October 2016 Description: Ibragimova and friends rise to three of Haydn’s ‘Sun’ Quartets Musicians: Chiaroscuro Quartet Composer: Joseph Hadyn Catalogue number: BIS 2158 (SACD) The Chiaroscuro Quartet ...
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