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Availabilities: - 07/26 - 08/11/08 - 02/21 - 03/16/09 |
Andreas Seidel, Tilman Büning, violins; Ivo Bauer, viola; Matthias Moosdorf, cello |
"If there's a 'Leipzig Sound', this is it" -New York Times |
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Described by the Neue Zuericher Zeitung as "one of the towering and most versatile quartets of our time," the Leipzig String Quartet has been praised as "sophisticated and imaginative" (BBC Radio 3) and as showing "extraordinary range of color and expressive effect" (Manchester Evening News). The quartet has toured extensively throughout Europe, Israel, Africa, Southeast Asia, Central and South America; engagements in North America include Weill Recital Hall, the Frick Collection, 92nd St.Y, Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, and in Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver, earning them praise for their concerts: "superbly integrated" (Washington Post); "everything, but everything, was perfect" (Le Devoir, Montreal). In the summer of 04, the ensemble again performed with Alfred Brendel at the Gstaad Festival and made its very successful Lincoln Center debut, appearing with pianist Christian Zacharias at the Mostly Mozart Festival. In the fall of 04, the quartet gsve 5 performances at Paris' Theatre Chatelet. The quartet has its own concert series at the Leipzig Gewandhaus where it has offered complete cycles of the First and Second Viennese Schools, as well as giving many world premieres. Its discography consists of by now more than sixty CDs spanning Mozart to Cage, including the complete quartet literature of the Second Viennese School, and the complete Schubert quartet literature, of which Classic CD wrote, "The Schubert Quartet in G major [is] worthy to stand alongside the Juilliard version and even the Busch Quartet's masterly account. Best Category!" Of their Mendelssohn Vol II (Op. 44/1,2) release the London Daily Telegraph speaks of "delicacy and lyrical sweep..."fire and grace" and goes on to say "and with their meticulous care and balance, the Leipzigers have you marvelling at the sheer inventiveness of Mendelssohn's textures". The recordings have won the quartet numerous prizes, such as the Diapason d'Or, the Premios CD Compact award, two nominations for the Cannes Classical, the 1999 and 2000 Echo and Indie awards, the 2003 Echo prize for Richard Strauss, and the 2004 Echo prize nomination for their Dvorak release. The quartet recently completed the Beethoven cycle recordings, and the April 08 Kulturspiegel comments: "in contrast to the two-decade-old reference recording by the Melos Quartet, the Leipzig Quartet always succeeds in producing the unbelievable. Still cleaner intonation, still more precise entrances, even more transparent lines give such glowingly pure, emotion-laden sound that Beethoven’s roughness, his massive tone and abysses become an existential necessity." 1st Prize, ARD Munich Competition Simmons Prize; Busch Prize
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Exclusive Representation in North and South America through August 31, 09
Contact Erica Shupp (631) 928-1531 |
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