Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Debussy’s unmistakably Gallic quartet is usually paired with Ravel’s. Here we hear it alongside lesser-known chamber ...

Photographs of Dmitri Shostakovich invariably show a face of gloom. Yet Soviet Russia's greatest composer had a wild side. He possessed a sharp ear for torch songs and jazz. He spun circus tunes into ...

The polished, intelligent music-making of the Tokyo players provides wonderfully alive, full-bodied readings of the two greatest essays in string quartet form by French composers. Slow movements are ...

Kinderszenen, Movements: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Brodsky Quartet Robert Schumann, Composer Philip Fisher, Piano Kinderszenen, Movements: Curiose Geschichte Brodsky Quartet Philip Fisher, ...

The Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival rolled into its second week with a concert of unexpected contrasts. The festival, celebrating 30 years of consistently high musicianship and ...

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 ...

FRANCE’S Debussy String Quartet is one of seven ensembles performing in the Melbourne Festival’s Quartets at Sunset series. As part of the Haydn for Everyone program, each sunset concert includes one ...

It's day two of a visit with the Takacs Quartet in the Performance Today studios. Today, the group plays the String Quartet in G Minor by Claude Debussy. In 1893, Debussy was 31, and was having ...

The Elias String Quartet plays the Newman Center Wednesday night as part of the Friends of Chamber Music concert series. The program consists of Haydn’s String Quartet in F major, Opus 77, No. 2; ...

The shifts of light and shade in Debussy’s String Quartet are ear-catchingly etched in by the Dante Quartet on a disc pairing the Debussy with a work that pays homage to it, the Quartet by Ravel. The ...

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 ...