“Few cycles match Shostakovich’s fifteen quartets for being such a mirror of the 20th century, its tragedies and its musical greatness: by taking on the arduous challenge of a complete recording, derived from live concerts, the Quatuor Danel achieves a feat worthy of the highest comparisons, for the instrumental brilliance of the performances and the … Read More

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