It was for Philadelphia's Musical Fund Society's chamber work competition that Szymanowski wrote his String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 in the autumn of 1927. The Quartet did not win, the two ex aequo ...
2023 was always going to be a landmark year for the esteemed Swiss clarinetist and composer Jürg Frey. His 70th birthday was in May and, to celebrate it, the renowned Huddersfield Contemporary Music ...
Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, Op. 133 Beethoven – String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 The internationally renowned and award-winning Emerson String Quartet has ...
The frame music puts around time is also a magnifying glass. In an everyday context, 5½ hours might be an unremarkable interval; in the context of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, it was ...
Schoenberg’s influential String Quartet No 2 both acknowledged and broke away from tradition. Richard Whitehouse surveys its recorded history The 150th anniversary year of Schoenberg’s birth has ...
Over the past four decades, the Arditti Quartet have collaborated with almost all the great composers of our time, many of whom, from Elliott Carter to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi to ...
These are fiery, full-Technicolor performances of the two great Janáček quartets – Nos 1 and 2 – with which the rising Doric String Quartet make a mark in a crowded field. Their interpretation of ...
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