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The Van Kuijks communicated with great directness the obsessive nature of Bartók’s music in his Fourth Quartet.

With Satu Vänskä at the helm, the ACO delivers a thrilling series of performances in an ecclectic program at the City Recital Hall, Sydney

The classy Elias String Quartet brighten the morning with enjoyable Haydn and Mendelssohn, but Britten doesn't sit quite right. 

The Edinburgh Quartet in a programme of early works showing promise - then and now - and radical change of direction. 

The Mozartkirche, a grand Catholic church in Biberbach, provided a somewhat reverential setting for the sixth concert in the mozart@augsburg series. It was also a distinct contrast to the elaborate Small Golden Hall in which the previous evening’s concert, “Chamber Music Pearls”, was held.

There are few better openers to a string quartet recital than Haydn, the man who developed the genre into the democratic dialogue capable of drawing 900 listeners. Few better examples of this democracy exist than the variations which constitute the second movement of his 1796–97 String Quartet in C major Op. 76 no. 3, “Emperor”.

Trust Haydn to provide the music for by far the most engrossing performance I heard at the Verbier Festival. Once again, having heard his music played with verve and appreciation by keen musicians, one wondered why more Haydn is not heard in concert, whether as symphonies, piano sonatas, or string quartets.

Enter the sound world of Quatuor Mosaïques and check your expectations at the door. They perform on what we call period instruments: gut strings (rather than steel), classical bows (shorter than their modern counterparts), and less tension in the instruments.

Ce devait être la clôture d’une année consacrée à l’intégrale des quatuors de Mendelssohn : le concert des Van Kuijk est en fait l’un des premiers d'une série qui commence bien.

Das junge Talent Teo Gheorghiu bestach im Palatin Wiesloch gemeinsam mit dem renommierten Carmina Quartett mit einer differenzierten, schlichten Interpretation von Dvořáks Klavierquintett.