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

The Quatuor Danel Interprets Franck In their performances of the complete Weinberg string quartets “the French Quatuor Danel again probes the pieces with fiery intensity and again makes these interpretations a very gripping experience”. The gifted french musicians now turn to two masterpieces by César Franck: his passionate Piano Quintet and the String Quartet. The … Read More