The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a ...
The group’s period-instrument sonority and basic approach will be familiar from earlier releases in this series: sparing use of vibrato (but liberal use of rubato), observance of all repeats in the ...
Scottish folk music played alongside works by Haydn and Beethoven? That would be surprising coming from any chamber-music group — unless it’s the Maxwell String Quartet. For the Maxwells, who are ...
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: Judith van Driel (violin 1), Marleen Wester (violin 2), Marie-Louise de Jong (viola) & David Faber (cello) The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart ...
The Schmitt edition also differs in the more nitty-gritty details of dynamics, articulation and so on – those things that excite musicologists but are less likely to bother all but the most obsessive ...