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

We have just started a crazy project in Taipei consisting in playing all the Quartets by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Weinberg over three years. Each one of the 16 concerts includes a piece by each one of the three composers. The second part of this Trilogy should be held place in September 2018 and the third … Read More