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THE GUARDIAN – Calder Quartet/Komsi review – Eötvös Sirens’ test is navigated...
Wigmore Hall, London Peter Eötvös’s new Sirens Cycle blends Kafka, Joyce and Homer in strikingly different sections. Piia Komsi met its challenges with operatic brilliance… Full Article
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NEW YORK TIMES – Exploring a Cathartic Moment in a Lengthy String Quartet
A funny notion, selecting a single, favorite page from Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2. After all, this 1983 opus of titanic duration and fearsome reputation can last anywhere from under four...
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WALL STREET JOURNAL – Training Tips for a Marathon Musical Performance
…This Saturday, lovers of modern classical music get their own endurance event at the Met Cloisters, when the Calder Quartet offers a rare performance of Morton Feldman’s 1983 piece “String Quartet No....
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THE WEST AUSTRALIAN – Classic strings to their bows
Beethoven and Beyond 5 stars Calder Quartet Winthrop Hall REVIEW WILLIAM YEOMAN This group of three concerts, performed across as many days from Friday through to Sunday as part of PIAF’s Chamber Music...
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LIMELIGHT – Calder Quartet (Utzon Room Series)
★★★★½ Cutting edge Beethoven from La La Land foursome.Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House February 26, 2017 Sydney’s crème de la crème Utzon Series chamber music season got under way in stylish fashion...
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LA TIMES – The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven
…The players relied on what they are particularly good at, namely, producing a beautifully rounded and unified sound, as well as showing a generous sense of musical camaraderie, as the quartet did —...
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE – Calder Quartet shines in both new and old music
A string quartet that can play Beethoven as powerfully as the Calder Quartet is an important asset to the musical ecosphere, to be sure, though perhaps not an especially uncommon one. But a group that...
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SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE – Adès’s Quartets Stack Up Well in Calder...
Comparing any living composer to Beethoven practically begs for outraged comments, but I’m willing to take that chance for Thomas Adès. The British composer’s two quartets, separated by 16 years, offer...
View ArticleTHE STRAD – Calder Quartet signs exclusive recording contract with Pentatone
The Calder Quartet from the US has signed an exclusive global recording contract with Pentatone. The California-based group’s first album for the label will focus on Beethoven quartets… Download PDF |...
View ArticleWASHINGTON POST – Intimate setting suits performance of works by Swedish...
…In the “Kongsgaard Variations” (built around the gorgeous “Arietta” theme from Beethoven’s last piano sonata, Op. 111), Hillborg channeled Beethoven’s dramatic lyricism in a free-flowing meta style...
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