In the spring of 2016, the British recording company Chandos, with the help of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's Polska Music programme, released an album containing every string quartet by Grażyna ...

Now in its 19th year, South Korea’s leading string quartet, Novus Quartet, continues its ambitious musical journey with the release of a new album, "Brahms: The Complete String Quartets." The group’s ...

Moving through the stories of many lives told in myriad ways: This is what it feels like to spend time with Steve Reich's three innovative and profound string quartets. It's even more powerful to hear ...

(4) Pieces for String Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Artea Quartet (12) Fugues Wu Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer (12) Lieder, Movements: No. 1, Frage (wds. Voss) Sophie Bevan, Soprano Julian ...

Less than a year after the Lutosławski Quartet released its recording of Grażyna Bacewicz’s seven quartets on Naxos, here is a rival from the Silesian Quartet at a similar price. Which to choose? The ...

This is challenging, but really worth the effort. The Spanish composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) became a pupil of Schoenberg and moved to Cambridge, where he was taken up by the BBC in the 1960s.

To have a woman’s voice from Poland charting the difficult years of the mid-20th century is a valuable testimony. Gražyna Bacewicz, violinist and composer of over 200 works, deserves a wider audience.

Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published CDs with contemporary music for the local market. That is when I first heard Górecki’s ...

The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet's Beethoven string quartet cycle was recorded between 1998 and 2011. The recordings cover a change of personnel (of violin and viola, in 2007), and the group's ...

Gauthier Herrmann first came to India in 2001, carrying a cello and the usual assumptions European musicians tend to have ...

Comprised of violinist Christopher Otto, violinist Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK's The Complete String Quartets features eight John Zorn quartets, ...

Fans of UB’s annual Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle are in for a treat this year. The Pacifica String Quartet, which has demonstrated a passion and commitment for performing complete string ...