The Emperor String Quartet applied forceful, bright, even harsh attacks to works by James MacMillan, Harrison Birtwistle, Benjamin Britten and William Walton on Monday in the Bing Theater at the Los ...
THE Emperor String Quartet are an increasingly formidable young ensemble. They return to Edinburgh next week in a more conventional programme of Mozart, Schubert and Brahms, but this concert for the ...
The Emperor Quartet follows the most substantial of Britten's three numbered quartets with three of the quartet works that preceded them. Both the Three Divertimenti of 1936 and the D major Quartet ...
FRANK CLIFF Haydn's String Quartet Opus 50 No 3 and Martinu's Fourth both show conscious mastery of the medium, indebtedness to their native music and an infectious vitality. Haydn's String Quartet ...
SCOTLAND might well be a land of many musical riches, but only the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust (Ecat) could have brought to the capital a group of the calibre of the Emperor String Quartet, ...