In Jürg Frey’s world, stillness is motion. Throughout the Swiss composer’s String Quartet No. 4, Quatuor Bozzini pull their bows so gradually that it feels as if each note is stopped in time. Yet they ...

Anyone who encountered the Marmen Quartet in a superb performance of Robert Simpson’s First Quartet at a Proms chamber recital in 2021 will know that they are an ensemble with which to reckon, amply ...

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I heard a remarkable new piece of chamber music this past January. The work, the String Quartet no. 4 (1988) by the thirty-seven-year-old composer George Tsontakis, was performed in its world premiere ...

Peteris Vasks has become something of a leading light in Eastern European music. Although his work has probably enjoyed greater exposure since the popularity of Arvo Pärt, it’s more than likely this ...