| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 15-Nov-2012 Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh | The Brodsky Quartet show their true musical colors at Utrecht's Vredenburg |
A pseudo-cinematic turn of events forced the world renowned Brodsky Quartet to pull out all the stops for their concert in Utrecht last Thursday evening. Continually in demand as interpreters of the standard string quartet repertoire as well as proponents of new music commissioned by living composers, the quartet has accumulated a wealth of original manuscripts for their personal catalogue. Prepared to showcase their range, the group created a “Wheel of 4Tunes”, a musical “Wheel of Fortune” which presents a program of four works with the possibility of 10 works per space.Read full review... | |
| 14-Oct-2012 Art Institute of Chicago | Debussy and Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago |
Those who find that the words “complete works” hold a special allure will surely already know about the Debussy Chamber Music Festival taking place in Chicago this month, performed and organized by the Chicago Chamber Musicians, which offers the rare opportunity to hear the composer’s complete chamber works.
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| 20-Aug-2012 Cadogan Hall | Proms Chamber Music 6: Hugh Wood and Claude Debussy |
This year the Proms Chamber Music Series returns to the bright and spacious environment of Cadogan Hall to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth. At the sixth concert in the series an inspired programme given by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the Escher Quartet, paired two works exactly one hundred years apart in their composition: String Quartet No.Read full review... | |
| 20-Apr-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Scottish Ensemble in Edinburgh: A journey backwards in time from Ligeti to Bach |
There is something delightfully non-prescriptive about the word “ensemble”, admitting of many combinations of performers and types of music. It was this notion of flexibility that came to the fore in Friday night’s concert in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. In this, the last of the Scottish Ensemble’s series of creative, time-travelling programmes, we journeyed from Hungary in the 1960s to Cöthen in the early 1700s.Read full review... | |