ChiaroscuroQuartet
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:
Melanie Moult
For contracts, logistics and press:
Fiona Russell
Representation
General management: Askonas Holt
Partner managers:
Japan: Yuichi Murakami, Eurassic Tokyo Inc
About Chiaroscuro Quartet
Formed in 2005, Chiaroscuro Quartet performs music of the Classical and early Romantic periods on gut strings and with historical bows. The Quartet’s unique sound is highly acclaimed by audiences and critics all over Europe.
Recent releases for BIS include Beethoven's Op.18, Mozart's Prussian Quartets and Haydn's Quartets Op.33 (1-3), with future plans featuring Beethoven's Opp. 74 and 130 and the second volume of Haydn's Op.33.
Among the ensemble’s chamber music partners are Kristian Bezuidenhout, Trevor Pinnock, Jonathan Cohen, Christian Poltera and Cédric Tiberghien. Recent engagements include Vienna Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Warsaw, Edinburgh International Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid, The Sage Gateshead, Auditorium du Louvre Paris, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Boulez Saal and Beethoven Haus Bonn.
The 23/24 season sees them at Wigmore Hall & King’s Place London, Boulez Saal Berlin, Bozar Brussels, Mozarteum Salzburg and on tour to Japan. It also marks the culmination of their residency at Turner Sims Concert Hall.
Chiaroscuro Quartet are grateful to Jumpstart Jr Foundation for the kind loan of the 1570 Andrea Amati violin.
Representation
General management: Askonas Holt
Partner managers:
Japan: Yuichi Murakami, Eurassic Tokyo Inc
Season Highlights
Audio
- Schubert: "Der Tod und das Madchen" IV PrestoCredit: BIS Records
- Schubert: "der Tod und das Madchen" II AndanteCredit: BIS Records
- Mozart: String Quartet in C Op.19 K 465Credit: Aparte
Sample Programmes
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in C major, K.465 'Dissonance' Interval Schubert String Quartet in G major, D.887 OR: Purcell Fantasias: No.7 (Z. 738) No.8 (Z. 739) No.11 (Z. 742) Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op.95 ‘Serioso’ Interval Schubert String Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden’ OR: Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op.9, No.4 Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op.59, No.1 'Razumovsky' Interval Schubert String Quartet D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden' OR: Beethoven String Quartet in E flat major, Op.127 Beethoven String Quartet in E flat major, Op.131 Haydn String Quartets: C major, Op.20, No.2 G minor, Op.20, No.3 D major, Op.20, No.4
With Kristian Bezuidenhout or Cedric Tiberghien, fortepiano
Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op.56 'Razumovsky' Interval Mendelssohn Prelude & Fugue in E minor (1841) Selection from Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 62 Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44 Or: Mozart String Quartet in C major, K.465 'Dissonance' Mozart Piano Sonata Interval Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op.33, No.6 Mozart Piano Concerto No.12 in A major, K.414
Press
Recording: Beethoven String Quartets Vol 3
BIS recordsOct 2023The wonderfully paced opening grows steadily in insistence, until it blossoms into melody in a totally unforced way, setting the tone for everything that follows; there seem to be no preconceptions in these performances, everything comes from the music itself.
- The Guardian
- 19 October 2023
Discography
- Beethoven: String Quartets Opp 74 and 130
- Haydn: Op.33 Vol 1
- Mozart: Prussian Quartets
- Beethoven: String Quartets Op.18 Vol 2
- Beethoven: String Quartets Op.18 Vol 1
- Haydn: String Quartets Op.76 Vol 2
- Haydn: String Quartets Op.76 vol 1
- Schubert: String Quartets No.9 and 14
- Haydn: Sun Quartets Vol.2
- Haydn: "Sun Quartets" Op. 20 Vol 1
- Mozart and Mendelssohn
- Beethoven, Mozart String Quartets
- Mozart, Schubert
