After over a decade of performances and residencies in the world’s most esteemed venues and festivals, the release of numerous critically acclaimed recordings and lauded with significant awards, the Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast repertory; from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated contemporary voices like Grygory Kurtag, Jörg Widmann and Caroline Shaw.
HAYDN: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 71 No. 2
SHAW: Entr'acte
SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 (B. 179) "American"
TURNAGE: Arietta
KORNGOLD: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 34
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, "American"
KORNGOLD: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34
SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
American Tapestry on Signum Classics features music by composers Samuel Barber, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Wynton Marsalis and the world premiere recording of John Williams’ With Malice Toward None from “Lincoln” as arranged by the composer for the Calidore. The program of American music tells a story of “human interconnectedness that resonates beyond any national borders.”
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‘Rasumovsky’ no.2 went to the Calidore Quartet in Crail, and it uncorked all of the work’s dark, febrile energy, revealing this as a high-pressure drama that carries very little relaxation or release. The Calidore then plunged even further into the dark the following day when it played Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet as if it were a high-octane psychodrama; everything treated with vice-like focus, driven by a terrible energy that ran through every phrase, even the slow, warm beauty of the variations…
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