The string quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel not only rank among the most recorded string quartets, they are most often found together on the same recording. Debussy composed his quartet in ...
Bravo first of all to the Klenke Quartet for having the imagination to pair the Ravel String Quartet neither with further French chamber repertoire nor with Stravinsky. As it happens, there is a ...
Ravel and Fauré each left a single quartet, not museum pieces but living arguments about line, colour and tact. Quartetto Noûs approach them like restorers who digitise a vintage photograph at high ...
Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 2, on the other hand, hails from an entirely different world, historically, stylistically, and expressively. Written in 1980 as a memorial to the composer’s friend, ...