Work: String Quartet in F major

Is there a difference between music composed for films and music used in films? Can the former have a life beyond film? The Piatti Quartet looks for answers.

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Taking risks that pay off at the Enescu Festival

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Peter Quantrill, 13 Sep

The Giocoso’s Enescu and Il Giardino Armonico’s Beethoven bookend an exhilarating day of rarities and classics.

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At Festival Ravel: tilting at windmills

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Mark Pullinger, 03 Sep

Don Quixote provides the inspiration for songs by Ravel and Ibert, the high point of a bitty programme in contrast to an early evening recital which followed the perfect trajectory.

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Bachtrack top ten: Maurice Ravel

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Mark Pullinger, 07 Mar

“I've written only one masterpiece. Unfortunately it has no music in it.” To which work was the self-critical Maurice Ravel referring and where does it come in our playlist of the dapper Frenchman’s top ten?

Work: String Quartet in F major

LondonKirckman Concerts Present: Regency String Quartet

ParisQuatuor Diotima

New York CityBalourdet Quartet

Piatti Quartet: cinema without the moving pictures in Sheffield

Taking risks that pay off at the Enescu Festival

At Festival Ravel: tilting at windmills

Bachtrack top ten: Maurice Ravel