A toe-tapping performance from the Danish Quartet

Le Danish String Quartet a conquis le public du Club musical de Québec, avec un programme mettant autant en valeur des jalons du répertoire classique qu'un florilège de mélodies du folklore scandinave.

Das Danish String Quartet spannte den Bogen von Haydn bis Caroline Shaw und zeigte eine schiere Freude am Dasein.

Crisp programming from Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw as a four year Doppelgänger project pairing late Schubert with contemporary works enjoys a strong start.

Overall, the performance kept a wonderful equilibrium between color and structure, humor and tragic sentiment, self-confidence and doubt.

The Danish String Quartet provide a thoughtful Haydn, a compelling Beethoven and a Nielsen which shows them at their best. 

Sometimes music is a more effective transporter than the London Underground. This was certainly the case this Tuesday, when closures on the Piccadilly line resulted in me cycling at breakneck speed half-way across London to hear the Danish String Quartet playing in what I imagined to be a regular, run-of-the-mill, wear-what-you-like-as-long-as-it’s-corduroy concert at the Cadogan Hall.