Enesco Quartet
The Enesco Quartet is a French string quartet based in Paris.
The Enesco Quartet is a French string quartet based in Paris.
The Enesco Quartet was formed in 1979. Wishing to honour the memory of the illustrious Georges Enesco (1881-1955), their founders gave his name to the Quartet. Their meeting with the famous musicians Sándor Végh, Norbert Brainin and Sergiu Celibidache was of the utmost importance: the Enesco Quartet established itself internationally from the very beginning of their studies with these great artists with whom they maintained privileged relations.[ citation needed ]
Their repertoire is distinguished by a very large number of quartets, as well as numerous works ranging from the quintet to the octet, including classical and romantic pages from the 18th, 19th, and 20th century, which occupies an important place in their programmes. They have performed a large number of contemporary works for string quartets composed by Philippe Hersant, Serge Nigg, Henri Sauguet, Jean-Jacques Werner, Pierre-Max Dubois, Nicolas Bacri, Nicolas Philippot, Jesús Guridi, Xavier Montsalvatge, José Peris Lacasa, Carmelo Bernaola, Josep Soler i Sardà and José García Román. Many of them have written works especially for the Enesco Quartet.[ citation needed ]
They are regularly invited to the main festivals : Besançon International Music Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, Festival de musique de La Chaise-Dieu, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Paris, Cannes [1] Santander [2] Granada, [3] Stavelot, Echternach, Kuhmo, [4] Guildford, Bâle, Bucharest [5] and they have played with artists such as Olivier Charlier, Lluís Claret, Jean-Philippe Collard, Patrice Fontanarosa, Youri Egorov, Pascal Gallet, Ivry Gitlis, Michel Lethiec, Roberte Mamou, Paul Meyer, Aurèle Nicolet, Marielle Nordmann, Régis Pasquier, [6] Jean-Pierre Rampal, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Michel Strauss, Gabriel Tacchino, Haruko Ueda, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Narciso Yepes, Roland Dyens etc.[ citation needed ]
The Enesco Quartet has performed in the most prestigious halls in the world, including the Salle Gaveau, the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Teatro Real and the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London, and the Library of Congress in Washington.[ citation needed ]
Every year, the Quartet is invited for masterclasses in the most important music venues in France, as well as in Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and Finland.[ citation needed ]
Their discography includes numerous recordings for French record companies Arion, Pierre Verany, Forlane, Rem, as well as Claves (Spain), Novalis (Switzerland) and CPO (Germany), with works by Schubert, Schumann, Dvořák, Boccherini, Cherubini, Debussy, Ravel, Franck, Chausson, Vierne, Enesco, Janacek, Bartok, Shostakovich, Guridi. For the recording of Franck and Chausson, with the pianist Gabriel Tacchino, they were awarded the Diapason d'Or, and for the CD comprising three quartets of French contemporary music by Nigg, Hersant, and Philippot, they were awarded the Grand Prix de l'Académie française du disque. In Spain, their recording of Guridi's two quartets was voted Best Record of the Year.[ citation needed ]
Pierre Petit, the famous music critic, in an article in Le Figaro , called them "messengers of poetry", and speaking of their "warmth and virtuosity", he concluded: "decidedly, the Enesco quartet is a very great quartet".[ citation needed ]
The Enesco Quartet has celebrated its 40 years of artistic activity in 2019.[ citation needed ]
In the last two seasons, the Quartet has played several concerts at the Royal Palace in Madrid with the quartet of Stradivarius instruments belonging to the Palacio Real, precious instruments that the Enesco Quartet has been playing regularly for 30 years.
In Paris, the Enesco Quartet performed the world premiere of the first quartet by composer Fabrice Gregorutti, [7] followed in March by the CD recording of the work. They then performed the world premiere of the second quartet with soprano, and the third quartet by the same composer.[ citation needed ]
After concerts and masterclasses in France, they played several concerts in two tours in Germany, as well as participating in the festivals of Koblenz and Osnabrück. In May, they performed "Kuhmo in Paris", and then in July at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, where they return for the tenth consecutive year. On this occasion, they met the composer Krzysztof Penderecki and performed his second string quartet, as well as Magnus Lindberg's piano quintet, in the presence of the composer.[ citation needed ]
Last recordings :
After its prestigious Grand Prix du Disque, the quartet continued its recording cycles. Currently, the Quartet has released a Shostakovich record (1st and 7th quartets and the piano quintet), as well as the premiere of the latest quartets by José Peris Lacasa, Postnuclear Winter Scenario by Jacob ter Veldhuis, Tenebrae and Last round by Osvaldo Golijov.[ citation needed ]
The world premiere performance of Vladimir Mendelssohn's Fantasy for Quartet was a great success in South Korea and Scandinavia.[ citation needed ]
Projects for 2017 and 2018 included Ravel's quartet in his city of residence (Montfort-l'Amaury), the "Musique et Passions" cycle in Paris, concerts at the Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo in Venice, and a day of concerts in Antwerp dedicated to the composer Georges Enesco, including works for quartet, piano quartet and octet.[ citation needed ]
The Enesco Quartet been invited for the 25th consecutive year in the prestigious chamber music series of the "Ramón Areces Foundation" in Madrid.[ citation needed ]
Vladimir Mendelssohn was born into a family with a long musical tradition in Romania, and studied viola and composition in Bucharest. He is very much in demand as a chamber musician, and he regularly plays in many international festivals with the biggest names in music. With the Enesco Quartet, he is invited to play all over the world, on the most prestigious stages. He has also given solo concerts and made numerous recordings for various record companies. Mendelssohn is a prolific composer, writing works for solo instruments, mixed choir, chamber and symphony orchestras. He has also written chamber music, ballet, incidental music, and film music. He is currently professor of chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris, and also teaches in The Hague, Essen and Bologna, and regularly gives master classes all over the world. Since autumn 2005, Mendelssohn has been the artistic director of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland.[ citation needed ]
Dan Iarca is one of the founding members of the Athenaeum Enesco Quartet. He was a member of this ensemble from its creation in 1979 to 1980 and from 1989 to 2002, the year of his death. [8]
Liviu Stanese was a member of the Enesco Quartet from March 1981 to February 1989.[ citation needed ]
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