Artist archive: Calidore String Quartet

In an article written for The Arts Desk, reprinted here with permission, the Calidore String Quartet contemplates music for its torn nation, as collected together on its debut Signum Classics CD, Resilience, supported by its BBT Fellowship 2016. Classical musicians spend much of their lives inhabiting the realms of the past. To effectively practice and […]

Read more about How Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Janáček and Golijov speak for our troubled times

December Days in Boscoforte After a week in London where we recorded for our first BBC New Generation Artist broadcast, heard Mitsuko Uchida in an unforgettable concert of Mozart with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, had a reunion with our BBT family and lessons with the Belcea Quartet we arrived in Boscoforte after night had fallen. […]

Read more about If Music be the Food of Love