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 ...

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.

Bartók’s six string quartets are arguably the most important contribution to the medium after Beethoven, and they plot his evolution as a composer more completely than any other group of his works. Of ...

György Kurtág’s works for string quartet may fit comfortably on a single CD, but they define almost his entire composing career. The score he now acknowledges as his Op 1 was the String Quartet No 1, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The press release describes this as the first-ever complete recording of Vítězslav Novák’s three string quartets, which seems incredible. There are so many excellent Czech ensembles, and a wider ...

The final instalment of thequartet's sequence of Shostakovich string quartets brings together the 11th, 13th and 15th, pieces linked by their etiolated, elegiac tone. There's a bleak intensity to ...

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 ...

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 ...