The versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...
In the analogue era, the single string quartets by Debussy and Ravel, composed in 1893 and 1903 respectively, were an obvious and common combination, comfortably filling one LP. These days, however, ...
This is a wonderfully played pairing of perhaps the two greatest of all French string quartets. Both are late scores - Franck's huge work was completed in 1889, the year before the composer's death, ...
THOUGH they are recorded in chronological order, there's a case for listening to Fauré's quartet first, if you are intent on a string quartet session. The two French composers, often seen as opposites ...
Ravel and Fauré each left a single quartet, not museum pieces but living arguments about line, colour and tact. Quartetto Noûs approach them like restorers who digitise a vintage photograph at high ...
Formed in 2016 and awarded a residency three years later as part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme at Snape Maltings, the Eusebius Quartet left a most favourable impression with their debut ...
This recording has sat unissued in RCA's vaults for 15 years, possibly because it was made too soon after Evgeny Kissin's recording of Rachmaninov's Third Concerto on the same label. Another likely ...