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 ...

The ARIEL QUARTET is set to release the third volume of its complete Beethoven string quartet cycle on the Orchid Classics label, continuing a multi-year recording project that began with a first ...

Canadian group’s take on the mysterious Italian composer, who has enjoyed a resurgance of late, offers a good sense of how his music developed. But his work remains as elusive as ever Giacinto Scelsi ...

The Catalyst Quartet has released the final installment in its Uncovered recording series, devoted to string quartet works by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Less than a year after the Lutosławski Quartet released its recording of Grażyna Bacewicz’s seven quartets on Naxos, here is a rival from the Silesian Quartet at a similar price. Which to choose? The ...

Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published CDs with contemporary music for the local market. That is when I first heard Górecki’s ...

The Abel Quartet, like many musicians around the world, faced a pivotal moment at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The members, who were based in Vienna, Austria, returned to their home country, ...

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 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 ...