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Imaginative Bach and an exciting new work by Dobrinka Tabakova played by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta with pianists Ferhan and Ferzan Önder.

The programme ended with a sense of affirmation that shouted "that's how the Ravel quartet should go!"

A serious programme for a Valentine's day concert at Sydney Opera House.

I Musici di Montréal join forces with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal to present Mozart's Requiem in Robert Levin's revised arrangement of the unfinished masterpiece.

The Brodsky Quartet, named for violinist Adolph Brodsky (1851–1929), formed in 1972. Two founder members remain: second violinist Ian Belton and cellist Jacqueline Thomas. 2,000 concerts and 50 recordings later, they have been celebrating their 40th anniversary year by mixing their huge repertoire with an element of chance. Enter “The Wheel of 4Tunes”.

The Pacifica Quartet, now in its third year of residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has the formidable task of taking up the role occupied by the Guarnieri Quartet, which played there for 43 of its 45 years. The Pacifica is relatively young, a year or so shy of its tenth birthday, but holds the promise of a venerable ensemble in the making, with chops and class to prove it.

Calixto Bieito offre avec The String Quartet's Guide to Sex and Anxiety un spectacle intime sur l'angoisse existentielle, accompagné par le Heath Quartet.

La ejecución de la integral de los cuartetos de Beethoven es una manera magnífica de celebrar los veinte años del Cuarteto Casals, y hacerlo además introduciendo obras de compositores contemporáneos en los respectivos programas de todo el ciclo, es un ulterior aliciente porque nos permite comprender el sentido trascendental de esta forma musical tan célebre enigmática.

Technische Könnerschaft sondergleichen: perfekt abgestimmt in Dynamik und Artikulation. Intonation und Koordination waren durchweg unfehlbar, die klangliche Balance allererste Liga, und dennoch hatte man nie den Eindruck aalglatter, maschineller Perfektion.

Fazıl Say, Gábor Boldoczki, Willi Zimmermann und das ZKO beschließen die Saison 2015/16 mit kontrastreichem Programm.

Das Hamburger Ensemble Resonanz präsentiert sich zusammen mit Alina Ibragimova vielseitig beim 2. Internationalen Musikfest in seiner Heimatstadt.

Mit anspruchsvollen Interpretationen überzeugte das Arcanto Quartett das Münchner Publikum in der Allerheiligen Kirche - Beethoven, Schumann und Smetana von ihrer besten Seite.