“We always keep the fun in music and the pleasure to perform and to play together,” says Gabriel Le Magadure, second violinist of the internationally-recognized Quatuor Ébène. That’s been apparent ...

Here’s something that surely doesn’t often make its way onto string-quartet programs: “Some Day My Prince Will Come” from Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Sung in close harmony. And in ...

Quatuor Ebene is taking Beethoven around the world. Chamber Music New Zealand saved its best till last, signing off 2019 with Quatuor Ebene celebrating its own 20th birthday and Beethoven's upcoming ...

OCCASIONALLY a single work in a programme dominates the horizon in a listener's perspective. It does not detract from anything else in the programme; it does not refer to the quality of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ever since Mozart gave us Eine kleine Nachtmusik (“A Little Night Music”) the idea of nocturnal music has ...

All concertgoers know Felix Mendelssohn, the most astonishing child-prodigy musician of the 19th century, blessed with genius, wealth, and family encouragement. Less lionized is his sister Fanny.

Quatuor Ébène has a reputation for musical breadth and depth and the latter was on show in their program of Beethoven’s second, tenth and eleventh string quartets. Quatuor Ébène has an enviable ...

In a 1777 letter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recommended his sister learn some violin sonatas by Josef Myslivecek, a sure-fire hit if played “with much expression, taste, and fire.” Quatuor Ébène, the ...

There was a time when Mathieu Herzog put aside his viola, intending to never play classical music again. It wasn’t the music, which he loved; it was because “the competition between musicians” made ...

Quatuor Ebene is taking Beethoven around the world. Chamber Music New Zealand saved its best till last, signing off 2019 with Quatuor Ebene celebrating its own 20th birthday and Beethoven's upcoming ...

Founded in 1999 at the Boulogne Billancourt Conservatory in France, Quatuor Ébène studied with the Quatuor Ysaÿe in Paris and with Gábor Takács, Eberhard Feltz and György Kurtág. They launched their ...