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‘It’s quartet Disney World!’ Getting to grips with world’s biggest string quartet festival

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...
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BARTÓK String Quartet No 4 LIGETI String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Anyone who encountered the Marmen Quartet in a superb performance of Robert Simpson’s First Quartet at a Proms chamber recital in 2021 will know that they are an ensemble with which to reckon, amply ...
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Lachenmann: The String Quartets review – Quatuor Diotima draw you into his strange and compelling soundworld

The instruments mutter and shriek, dissolving the line between noise and music on this authoritative and fascinating disc Helmut Lachenmann is 90 this week, but the event has gone largely unmarked in ...
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Mendelssohn (The) Complete String Quartets

(4) Pieces for String Quartet, Movements: Fugue in A flat Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Bartholdy Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Bartholdy Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer String Quartet No. 1 ...