The Spanish string quartet – violinists Vera Martinez and Abel Tomas, violist Jonathan Brown, cellist Arnau Tomas – applied mesmerizing intensity to the score. Every violent, skittish or tipsy turn of ...

In 1954, when it was finished, Gyorgy Ligeti’s String Quartet no. 1 (“Metamorphoses Nocturnes”) satisfied neither side of the style wars. Taking off more or less where Bartok left off, its ...

Parker Quartet Naxos8.570781 **** György Ligeti's Second String Quartet of 1968 is a work in which the composer's innate sense of the theatrical, his fondness for a variety of curious musical ...

Hindsight is a treacherous thing, yet it can often be tempting to try to detect the foreshadowings of genius in the early work of a great composer. The temptation was irresistible in the case of ...

The Jupiter String Quartet announces the June 12, 2020 release of Metamorphosis on Marquis Classics. This album features Beethoven's Quartet Op. 131 and Ligeti's Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes ...

The Mendelssohn Octet will end Monday’s concert in Auer Hall, following two contemporary string quartets, one by Shulamit Ran, her Quartet No. 3, “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory” and Gyorgy Ligeti’s ...

The Ligeti Quartet is a group of young musicians dedicated to the performance of 20th- and 21st-century works. Their recital on Friday at the Jacqueline du Pré Building offered a generous and varied ...

Oxford Chamber Music Society audiences are made of strong stuff. The Holywell Music Room was packed to capacity for the Ligeti Quartet, even though the programme on offer was decidedly challenging — ...