Quatuor Agate – Brahms (The String Quartets) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:50:21 minutes | 2,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Appassionato, le label
Formed in 2016, the Quatuor Agate derives its name from one of the most beautiful chamber music pieces, Johannes Brahms’s Second Sextet, dedicated to his second love, Agathe von Siebold. Seven years later, this fascination with Brahms materialized with the release of their debut album in February 2024, featuring the complete String Quartets under Appassionato, le label.
Speaking of the rarely-recorded repertoire, the group’s first violinist Adrien explains: “It demands endurance, virtuosity, and presents a real challenge in terms of harmonic construction… and all of that simultaneously! But for us, the most prolonged process was finding our conception of the Brahmsian sound.”
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Gabriel Le Magadure, Frank Braley, Quatuor Agate – Chausson – Lekeu (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:35 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Appassionato, le label
Formed in 2016, the Quatuor Agate derives its name from one of the most beautiful chamber music pieces, Johannes Brahms’s Second Sextet, dedicated to his second love, Agathe von Siebold.
Seven years later, this fascination with Brahms materialized with the release of their debut album on February 23 2024, featuring the complete String Quartets under Appassionato, le label.
A few weeks after the quartet’s inception, they embarked on their first venture—the creation of the CorsiClassic festival, an annual event in Ajaccio, Corsica. The festival’s mission is to bring chamber music to diverse audiences.
Read moreEric Ferring, Madeline Slettedahl and Quatuor Agate – We have tomorrow (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:59 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delos
The emotive young American tenor Eric Ferring delivers a moving and ambitious collection of art songs with a chamber music emphasis. In this follow-up release to his acclaimed debut album No Choice but Love (Lexicon Classics), Ferring is joined to great effect by pianist Madeline Slettedahl and the French ensemble Quatuor Agate.
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