Coming 5 April 2024 will see the worldwide CD release of the new Shostakovich String Quartet cycle by the Quatuor Danel on the Accentus label. In collaboration with Gewandhaus Leipzig they recorded all fifteen string quartets in the wonderful Mendelssohn Hall of this historic institute for classical music. With their recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s complete … Read More

This season marks three decades of taking stages around the world for Quatuor Danel, a disciple of the Amadeus, Borodin and Parrenin Quartets. As the cherry on the anniversary cake, they are joined by friends Leif Ove Andsnes, François-Frédéric Guy, Lukas Hagen and Pascal Moraguès for two concerts in Paris and Amsterdam where they will … Read More

Jean-Luc Votano, principal clarinet of the Liège Royal Philharmonic (OPRL), here presents a work by a ‘classic’ figure of the twentieth century, the Kammerkonzert for clarinet, string quartet and string orchestra of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1930), along with two compositions of the twenty-first: Magnus Lindberg’s Clarinet Concerto, of which Votano gave the Belgian premiere with … Read More

Between the operas and ballets, the symphonies, tone poems, and concertos, and the songs and piano miniatures representing most of the significant entries in Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s work catalogue, the major genres of string chamber music register their presence as a salient minority. However, these works merit our full attention because they range over practically … Read More

In 2019, we will celebrate the Weinberg centenary with performances of his complete string quartets cycle in Manchester, Paris, Washington, Hamburg, London, Taipei and Amsterdam. We are very much looking forward to play these works that we love so much in such wonderful places! If you want to become more familiar with Weinberg’s String Quartets, … Read More