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After the New Hollywood String Quartet's first violinist went down with a rotator cuff injury, 21-year old Colburn School student, violist Johanna Nowik, saved the day.

Quatuor Ebène delight a Queen's Hall audience with Haydn, Dutilleux and Brahms.

Oxford’s Coffee Concerts are a perfect recipe for a slow-paced morning. Preceded by complimentary coffee in a nearby café or pub, the series brings chamber music to the historic Holywell Music Room and finishes in time to let the audience find a spot for Sunday lunch.

Inclement weather stalks the Edinburgh Quartet; at least, those concerts which I’ve attended in the past few months. On cue the early evening heavens opened unstintingly. By the time the concert approached it had “faired”, as the Scots sometimes say, but perhaps disinclination to venture out had been irreversibly embraced by some. That’s not to say that the attendance was poor.

Durham University’s concert series Musicon has been moving around different venues in the city over the last few years, and this year has been putting on concerts in the College chapel of St Hild and St Bede.

On Thursday 15 March, the Jerusalem String Quartet strode onto the stage of Richardson Auditorium all wearing the same smart suits. The four young players played a pleasant program of early string quartets by Beethoven, Debussy, and Brahms.

El Cosmos Quartet ofreció un magnífico concierto en el Teatre Principal de Sabadell que reitera la calidad del conjunto.

La Sociedad Filarmónica de Lugo inicia la temporada con el Cuarteto Quiroga y su dedicación a la música camerística de Brahms.

Son homogène, virtuosité, recherche de contrastes : au Louvre, le Quatuor Arod fait montre de ses remarquables qualités techniques à travers une histoire du quatuor, de Haydn à Bartók.

Le plaisir sans compter et du talent à revendre : le jeu hédoniste du Quatuor Modigliani, lundi soir, avec les Amis de la Musique à l'Opéra de Clermont-Ferrand.

Mit Haydn, Bartók und Brahms gelingt dem Artemis Quartett im Münchner Prinzregententheater eine besonders glückliche Programmauswahl.

On ne dira jamais assez combien les prestations live paraissent supérieures à celles qui s’élaborent dans l’intimité du studio : à preuve le renversant diptyque Brahms donné lundi soir au Gstaad Menuhin Festival au côté du pianiste Till Fellner.

Das Quatuor Ébène begeistert in Düsseldorf mit Flexibilität und französischem Charme und ist immer für eine musikalische Überraschung gut.