Danish String Quartet presents sublime Schubert and Sørensen pairing

By Rose Dodd, 13 September 2021

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Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 11 September 2021

Schubert, String Quartet no. 15 in G major, D.887

Sørensen, Doppelgänger (World premiere)

Danish String Quartet

Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, Violin

Frederik Øland, Violin

Asbjørn Nørgaard, Viola

Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, Cello

Danish String Quartet performs Beethoven’s Razumovsky Quartets

Edward Sava-Segal, 11th February

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

*****

A toe-tapping performance from the Danish Quartet

Katy Wright, 22nd June

After quartets by Nielsen and Beethoven, Nordic folk song arrangements brought the first day of the 2015 City of London Festival to a festive close.

****1

Intense and compelling: Danish String Quartet makes quite a splash in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 22nd April

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

****1

Larking about: the Danish String Quartet play Haydn, Nielsen and Mendelssohn

David Fay, 10th January

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.

***11

Innovative Kammermusik mit dem Danish String Quartet

Benedikt Zacher, 29th April

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

****1

Le Danish String Quartet ou les goûts réunis

Emmanuel Bernier, 5th November

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.

****1

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Rose Dodd

Amsterdam based composer Rose Dodd as well as writing for TEMPO (UK), seismograf (DK), Positionen (GER) also writes books about contemporary music, most recently on composers Christopher Fox and Louis Andriessen. Since being awarded a Mention at Prix Ars Electronica'99, her own work draws on inspiration found in the current Norwegian scene, combining ambient electronics with quiet focus on instrumental timbre.

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