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 ...
Almost 15 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet — they were in their 20s at the time and still called themselves the “Young” Danish — said in an interview that they would need to become more ...
A Late Quartet's centerpiece--Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131--can be a fool's errand. The marathon composition requires string musicians to play, without pauses, no fewer ...