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Ligeti - String Quartet No. 1 'Métamorphoses nocturnes'
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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Special offer. György Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
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They seem to have assimilated the music into their cells, performing it with an energetic vitality and colour that is all special effects...The group offers high-pixel definition of character,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Chamber Choice
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The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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This thrilling new release of the Transylvanian composer’s music for string quartet embraces three contrasting periods of his output...These players, who have specialised in modern music since... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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The Dudok Quartet’s gift is to hear Ligeti in Ligeti even when he couldn’t hear it in himself...The First Quartet is Tom and Jerry in black and white, the Second is their Technicolor reincarnation,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Here is another relatively new quartet plunging into the recording fray with 'high-end' repertory and reaping the rewards of their apparent fearlessness...the recordings have the conviction... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
RecommendedMatt Haimovitz, Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado, Helmut Franz, Gerd Zacher, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Håkan Hardenberger, Roland Pöntinen, Jacques Zoon & Douglas Boyd, Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky, Gianluca Cascioli, Pierre-Laurent...
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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The Minettis show a marked aff inity for the soundworld of 20th-century string quartet repertoire, rising to the Berg’s tortured passion and performing with characterful range and versatility... — More…
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The abandon with which the Bélas dig into their strings at the beginning of the First Quartet - just listen to them go! - tells us we're in for gutsy, soulful playing. This isn't cerebral,... — More…
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