After over a decade of performances and residencies in the world’s most esteemed venues and festivals, the release of numerous critically acclaimed recordings and lauded with significant awards, the Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast repertory; from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated contemporary voices like Grygory Kurtag, Jörg Widmann and Caroline Shaw.
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 18, No. 6
Opening Concert for String Quartet Seminar
BEETHOVEN: String Quartets 7-9 Op. 59 1-3
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1 "Razumovsky"
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 "Razumovsky"
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 "Razumovsky"
“The works played here reflect the intense experimentalism of Beethoven’s middle years – the leading Viennese critic of the day declared the ‘Razumovskys’ ‘not generally comprehensible’ – and the Calidore Quartet are well up to all the challenges…this album set is highly collectible.”