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 No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956
with Arnold Choi, cello
HAYDN: String Quartet op.33 no. 2 “Joke”
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet
with Orion Weiss, piano
The Complete Beethoven String Quartets rounds out the Calidore String Quartet’s award-winning full Beethoven cycle on Signum Classics. The Calidore released the quartets in reverse order, with the BBC Music Magazine Award-winning Late Quartets coming out in February 2023, The Middle Quartets – named Gramophone’s Recording of the Month – in September 2024, and the “comprehensively insightful” (Gramophone) Early Quartets in January 2025.
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Having completed the epic task of recording all of Beethoven’s string quartets, the members of the Calidore Quartet speak to Thomas May about their 15‑year journey from Colburn classmates to international acclaim
What became a world-class quartet has its origins in rivalry, when two of the Calidore Quartet’s future members first faced each other across the competition stage as teenagers. ‘We were very fierce competitors,’ violinist Jeffrey Myers remembers of meeting fellow violinist Ryan Meehan in 2007 at the Fischoff (Indiana) and Saint Paul (Minnesota) chamber music competitions, where they played in different ensembles…
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