“Pure tone” is a term often heard in appreciation of gut-stringed, vibrato-light performance of classical-era music, yet there was nothing pure about the Chiaroscuro’s carefully weighted attack upon ...

Chiaroscuro Quartet has announced that French violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux has joined the award-winning ensemble. Charlotte will perform alongside violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Emilie ...

Musical nicknames are good for business. Haydn’s set of six string quartets, Op 33, has had nicknames for the whole set, none of which is very widely used. “Russian”, favoured by BIS, remembers the ...

Rarely do string quartets perform works of the Classical period and beyond on pure gut strings. These are made with fibres extracted from either sheep or cow intestines and one associates them with ...

Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor is one of the richest works in the group of six that the composer famously dedicated to Haydn in 1785. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor was written by a ...

The young Chiaroscuro Quartet performs live at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, with chamber music by Mozart and Schubert. Formed in London in 2005 and led by the acclaimed violin soloist ...

Mayfest was founded in 2007 by Cornell pianists Miri Yampolsky and Xak Bjerken. Every year, by the time winter has turned to spring, this chamber music festival brings a range of international guest ...

The Chiaroscuro Quartet decided to hit back at the airline after their luggage was delayed – and they chose the perfect musical way to do Violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernan Benedi, cellist ...

The Chiaroscuro Quartet is very aptly named. In painting, the term refers to the treatment of light and shadow, but even that can take on multiple meanings. When Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de ...

WITH a first half consisting of two pre-Romantic composers, one might have expected that the expressive range of the Chiaroscuro Quartet would be limited. J.S. Bach’s instrumental music can seem drily ...

It began with three excerpts from The Art of Fugue, often prized as some of the most “abstract” music ever written, whatever that might mean. The measured tread of the Chiaroscuro’s account, however, ...