A long-awaited recording of Ravel is accompanied by Stephen Hough’s composition, absurdist vignettes of Paris The latest release from the Takács Quartet feels a bit like a comprehensive homage to ...

For their debut on the Platoon label, the Attacca Quartet offer this digital EP of Ravel’s String Quartet. Having heard some of the ensemble’s previous recordings, I had a feeling their performance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Placing it alongside the Debussy and Ravel Quartets, however, the excellent Stenhammar Quartet have unquestionably done it proud. There’s real lyrical warmth at the start of the Modéré, as its themes ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On Friday, September 7, 2018, the award-winning Tesla Quartet(Ross Snyder & ...

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 ...

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 ...