The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky ...

Hear the St. Lawrence Quartet perform at WGBH. Big truths can come in surprisingly small sentences. That's just one thing I learned when we invited the members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet into ...

This evergreen pairing – Debussy and Ravel wrote one quartet each – repays subtlety and restraint, and that is what we get from the Dantes, one of the UK’s finest quartets. They find all manner of ...

The string quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel not only rank among the most recorded string quartets, they are most often found together on the same recording. Debussy composed his quartet in ...

In the analogue era, the single string quartets by Debussy and Ravel, composed in 1893 and 1903 respectively, were an obvious and common combination, comfortably filling one LP. These days, however, ...

The Rolston Quartet. Photo courtesy of the Rolston Quartet. The Rolston Quartet, the new quartet-in-residence at Rice University’s Shepherd School, presents a recital Sunday afternoon at the MFAH in ...

The Leonkoro (Esperanto: ‘Lionheart’) Quartet make their debut album following a string of competition wins. As I remarked in a recent Collection (2/23), it’s heartening that so many young chamber ...

Written 10 years apart, Ravel and Debussy’s quartets are often compared. Indeed, Ravel greatly admired Debussy’s quartet and sought to produce a work equal to that of his elder colleague. He ended up ...

The disc is themed around Paris, almost a second home to Szymanowski in the 1920s, and folk music. Ravel’s ethnomusicographic credentials are not as tenuous as one might imagine, though they are ...

The polished, intelligent music-making of the Tokyo players provides wonderfully alive, full-bodied readings of the two greatest essays in string quartet form by French composers. Slow movements are ...