Hear the St. Lawrence Quartet perform at WGBH. Big truths can come in surprisingly small sentences. That's just one thing I learned when we invited the members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet into ...

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 ...

This evergreen pairing – Debussy and Ravel wrote one quartet each – repays subtlety and restraint, and that is what we get from the Dantes, one of the UK’s finest quartets. They find all manner of ...

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 ...

A renowned Czech ensemble plays the works of the two composers on a recording that is a pleasure to listen to.

In the analogue era, the single string quartets by Debussy and Ravel, composed in 1893 and 1903 respectively, were an obvious and common combination, comfortably filling one LP. These days, however, ...

For their debut on the Platoon label, the Attacca Quartet offer this digital EP of Ravel’s String Quartet. Having heard some of the ensemble’s previous recordings, I had a feeling their performance ...

The Leonkoro (Esperanto: ‘Lionheart’) Quartet make their debut album following a string of competition wins. As I remarked in a recent Collection (2/23), it’s heartening that so many young chamber ...

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 ...