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Hélène Clément is called in at the last minute to join the Chiaroscuro Quartet for their Wigmore Hall recital. 

Joined by pianist Emanuel Ax, the Emerson Quartet performed at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.

In honour of Schubert’s 218th birthday, Wigmore Hall decided to invite celebrated associate artists the Takács Quartet to perform a selection of the composer’s works for string quartet. 

The Bennewitz Quartet perform works by the Viennese masters Schubert and Webern, and by their Czech compatriot Dvořák, with varying degrees of success.

If the Chiaroscuro Quartet experienced any nerves at their Edinburgh International Festival debut at the Queen’s Hall, complete with full house and BBC Radio 3 recording team in place, it certainly didn’t show. Formed in 2005, this young, period instrument quartet, appeared completely at ease and at one with the music.

Aren’t nicknames interesting! I’m sure there’ll have been hundreds of studies into the development, designation, and deployment of nicknames and the historical and sociological conclusions we can draw from the Daves, D-Diddies and Dangerous Dans alike. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if the nickname formed the basis of an entire field of academic enquiry.

Each time I hear the Takács Quartet in concert a new excellence comes through: this time it is their gentleness. Schubert’s String Quartet in A minor, “Rosamunde” is allowed to unfold gently, as the petals of a rose open themselves.

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.

Véritable bouquet final de la 71e édition du festival de musique de Menton, Alexandre Kantorow et les Hermès ont conjugué moments énergiques et plages contemplatives.

Medtner, Rachmaninov et Schubert ont régalé le public deauvillais. Pour sa 18e édition, l'Août musical de Deauville réunissait les pianistes Philippe Hattat, Guillaume Vincent et le Quatuor Hermès.

Mit Beethoven, Janáček und Schubert bot das Julia Fischer Quartett eine wahre „Sternstunde der Quartettkultur".

Le paysage du quatuor est en pleine mue. Et à un âge où d’autres donnent, la mèche en bataille et l’oeil hagard, dans la virtuosité la plus belliqueuse, les Arod viennent contester radicalement les usages, remettant en question nos habitudes, nos goûts et les “lois” mêmes de l’interprétation.