The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary year is an important one. They choose not to proceed set by set through ...

While conservative-minded critics found Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets harsh and ‘difficult’, the wider public was enthusiastic. No 4, in the quintessential Beethoven key of C minor, quickly became a ...

These are, in their own modest way, quite daring interpretations of Beethoven’s six ‘early’ quartets. There have been other recordings of Op 18 on period instruments, of course, including a recent set ...

Carnegie Hall has revealed programming for its 2026–2027 season, including more than 170 concerts by many of the world’s ...

Here is the second release in a major studio cycle launched earlier in this, the Doric’s 25th year and intended to conclude in time for the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death. Significant ...

Dmitry Shostakovich’s string quartets can easily entice any author into an abyss of abstract poetic language. And so do the recordings of these deeply personal and very moving pieces. I have always ...

My usual policy of never reading booklet notes before I write about an album under consideration paid off handsomely in the case of this closing chapter of the Calidore Quartet’s Beethoven cycle, ...

The Calidore Quartet prime their tonal canvas in warm shades: nothing so bland as magnolia, but more opulent than the Danish String Quartet (ECM) or the Brodskys (Chandos, 3/20) among recent sets of ...

I have a friend who cannot abide ‘late’ Beethoven and I’d hazard a guess that the five-movement Quartet in A minor, Op 132, with its worldly shy ‘Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

String Quartet No. 1, Diacronia Mario Lavista, Composer Latin American Quartet String Quartet No. 2, Reflejos de la noche Mario Lavista, Composer Latin American Quartet String Quartet No. 3, Música ...

Penderecki’s works for string quartet cover the whole of his creative life, the first acknowledged one dating from 1960 and the last from 2016. This recording includes them all, as well as Der ...