This is a wonderfully played pairing of perhaps the two greatest of all French string quartets. Both are late scores - Franck's huge work was completed in 1889, the year before the composer's death, ...
The versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...
Formed in 2016 and awarded a residency three years later as part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme at Snape Maltings, the Eusebius Quartet left a most favourable impression with their debut ...
The late Polish composer’s chamber music is a treasure trove for the Tippett Quartet; Malcolm Martineau concludes his stellar Fauré series; and to the river with Radio 3 The many musical personalities ...
THOUGH they are recorded in chronological order, there's a case for listening to Fauré's quartet first, if you are intent on a string quartet session. The two French composers, often seen as opposites ...
French chamber music has long been a rich seam that record labels like to mine, and in recent years the familiar names of Fauré, Ravel, Debussy and César Franck have found themselves rubbing shoulders ...