Quatuor Ebène
Formed: 1999
Artist's website: https://www.quatuorebene.com/
Founded in 1999 at the Conservatoire Boulogne-Billancourt, the Quatuor Ébène started attracting international attention in 2004 following several major prizes at the ARD Music Competition. Their early recordings (on the Mirare label) included Haydn’s Lark and the complete Bartók quartets; they signed to Erato in 2008, and won BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year Award and Gramophone’s Recording of the Year the following year for their album of Ravel, Debussy and Fauré. Subsequent recordings have included the Fauré Piano Quintets with Eric Le Sage, Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets, an award-winning disc of music by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, and collaborations with Natalie Dessay, Philippe Jaroussky, Menahem Pressler and Matthias Goerne. The quartet also regularly ‘cross over’ into jazz and other idioms, and have recorded with Stacey Kent and bandoneon player Michel Portal.
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Further Reading: Quatuor Ebène
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Mendelssohn and Enescu Octets from the Ébène and Belcea Quartets
9th Jan 2026
String octets from Mendelssohn and Enescu - both in their teens at the time of composition - show the two composers’ genius already in full flower. The Ébène and Belcea quartets give it their all and the results are spectacular.
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Mendelssohn from the Quatuor Ebène
7th Jan 2013
The award-winning young French quartet bring their trademark commitment and passion to chamber-music by the Mendelssohn siblings, including Felix’s ‘quartet-Requiem’ for his beloved sister.
Recent Best Sellers: Quatuor Ebène
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Special offer. Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516
Quatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit (viola)
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Building A Library, January 2024, Recommended Recording (String Quintet No. 3)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Chamber
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Special offer. Enescu & Mendelssohn: Octets
Quatuor Ébène, Belcea Quartet
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th January 2026
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
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Special offer. Ravel, Debussy, Fauré - String Quartets
Quatuor Ebène
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th October 2009
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Building a Library, March 2009, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Newcomer of the Year
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, March 2020, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Chausson
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Quatuor Ébène, Brussels Philharmonic, Stéphane Denève
CD: $17.75Download from $10.00
