Hear the St. Lawrence Quartet perform at WGBH. Big truths can come in surprisingly small sentences. That's just one thing I learned when we invited the members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet into ...

The string quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel not only rank among the most recorded string quartets, they are most often found together on the same recording. Debussy composed his quartet in ...

This evergreen pairing – Debussy and Ravel wrote one quartet each – repays subtlety and restraint, and that is what we get from the Dantes, one of the UK’s finest quartets. They find all manner of ...

A long-awaited recording of Ravel is accompanied by Stephen Hough’s composition, absurdist vignettes of Paris The latest release from the Takács Quartet feels a bit like a comprehensive homage to ...

For their debut on the Platoon label, the Attacca Quartet offer this digital EP of Ravel’s String Quartet. Having heard some of the ensemble’s previous recordings, I had a feeling their performance ...

Written 10 years apart, Ravel and Debussy’s quartets are often compared. Indeed, Ravel greatly admired Debussy’s quartet and sought to produce a work equal to that of his elder colleague. He ended up ...

The Ravel is the more conspicuously successful of the chosen works, at times daringly spacious yet always magically fine-spun, the light, silvery tone of leader Xander van Vliet setting the tone for a ...

Since winning first prize at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, Canada's Rolston String Quartet has been swept up in a whirlwind of concerts throughout Austria, Germany, Italy, ...