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Sixteen of the finest string players around join forces on one stage to end the East Neuk Festival in a grand finale. 

At Suntory Hall's annual Chamber Music Garden Festival, the Japanese group Verus String Quartet brings their Beethoven Cycle to a close with Zen-like serenity and restraint.

Ensemble 360's string quartet explore the emotional depths from late Beethoven to Shostakovich via quirky Stravinsky. 

The Kuss Quartet sandwich Kurtág’s Officium Breve between two late Beethoven quartets in the elegant surroundings of the Small Concert Room, St George’s Hall, Liverpool. 

The Takács Quartet performed quartets by Beethoven and Mozart with insight and energy. Pianist Jeremy Denk joined the ensemble in Dohnányi’s lushly romantic Piano Quintet.

The Kuss Quartet played the full cycle of Beethoven string quartets in five concerts. With the legendary "Paganini set" of four Stradivarius instruments, these turned out to be special days.

Intriguing and theatrical Kagel, followed by rich Beethoven from the Quatuor Renaud Capuçon in the opulent Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

Under guest director Lorenza Borrani a subdued ACO offers a programme of arrangements of Prokofiev and Beethoven sandwiching a new work by Dobrinka Tabakova.

The American Pacifica Quartet was convincingly introduced to Aussie Nigel Westlake's Second Quartet for their Down Under tour; but revealed its essence in the theatre of Shostakovich.

The Takács Quartet approaches every work with fresh eyes and enthusiasm even if it is their hundredth performance

The Kodály Quartet fascinates with strong ensemble and blind trust.

In their sold-out all Beethoven concert at the Wigmore Hall, the two violinists of the Artemis Quartet switched places during the interval. Gregor Sigl played first violin in the op.18-4 and op. 135 quartets, and after the interval Natalia Prishepenko led in the popular Razumovsky No. 1 quartet.