Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Debussy’s unmistakably Gallic quartet is usually paired with Ravel’s. Here we hear it alongside lesser-known chamber ...
Kinderszenen, Movements: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Brodsky Quartet Robert Schumann, Composer Philip Fisher, Piano Kinderszenen, Movements: Curiose Geschichte Brodsky Quartet Philip Fisher, ...
Photographs of Dmitri Shostakovich invariably show a face of gloom. Yet Soviet Russia's greatest composer had a wild side. He possessed a sharp ear for torch songs and jazz. He spun circus tunes into ...
The polished, intelligent music-making of the Tokyo players provides wonderfully alive, full-bodied readings of the two greatest essays in string quartet form by French composers. Slow movements are ...
The Ensemble mark their 60th anniversary with an outstanding recording of Debussy’s late sonatas The three sonatas out of a planned set of six that Debussy completed in the last years of his life are ...
It's day two of a visit with the Takacs Quartet in the Performance Today studios. Today, the group plays the String Quartet in G Minor by Claude Debussy. In 1893, Debussy was 31, and was having ...
FRANCE’S Debussy String Quartet is one of seven ensembles performing in the Melbourne Festival’s Quartets at Sunset series. As part of the Haydn for Everyone program, each sunset concert includes one ...
The Elias String Quartet plays the Newman Center Wednesday night as part of the Friends of Chamber Music concert series. The program consists of Haydn’s String Quartet in F major, Opus 77, No. 2; ...
The Belcea Quartet first recorded Debussy’s only composition in the medium 25 years ago for their debut album. This piece – recorded with the Belcea’s new second violinist Suyeong Kang – opens the ...
From Kurtág’s whispered fragments to Reich’s poignant memorialisation of 9/11, the Carducci Quartet deliver a programme of ...
Written 10 years apart, Ravel and Debussy’s quartets are often compared. Indeed, Ravel greatly admired Debussy’s quartet and sought to produce a work equal to that of his elder colleague. He ended up ...