Szymanowski wrote his String Quartet No. 1 in the autumn of 1917, during one of the most difficult periods of his life, when the revolutionaries and the Soviet communist party escalated their ...
The feverish unease that pervades these late Schubert works, with their ambiguous shifts from major to minor, tremolo triplets and searing outbursts, is perfectly captured by the excellent Doric ...
What’s in a string quartet? The members of Enso tell all. Or…some. They tell a good deal, let’s say. The Enso String Quartet is Maureen Nelson (violin), Ken Hamao (violin), Richard Belcher (cello), ...