Phillip Boulanger leaned into his cello, pursing his lips as the first few notes of Claude Debussy’s “Quartet in G Minor” loosed themselves from the belly of the instrument. His eyes brightened.

The Ensemble mark their 60th anniversary with an outstanding recording of Debussy’s late sonatas The three sonatas out of a planned set of six that Debussy completed in the last years of his life are ...

The string quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel not only rank among the most recorded string quartets, they are most often found together on the same recording. Debussy composed his quartet in ...

This evergreen pairing – Debussy and Ravel wrote one quartet each – repays subtlety and restraint, and that is what we get from the Dantes, one of the UK’s finest quartets. They find all manner of ...

Ok, I exaggerate. But not all that much: Circa’s performers are so impressive, they do appear to defy nature. Olympic gymnasts, contemporary ballerinas, and experienced yogis all possess analogous ...

The polished, intelligent music-making of the Tokyo players provides wonderfully alive, full-bodied readings of the two greatest essays in string quartet form by French composers. Slow movements are ...

The Elias String Quartet plays the Newman Center Wednesday night as part of the Friends of Chamber Music concert series. The program consists of Haydn’s String Quartet in F major, Opus 77, No. 2; ...

Kinderszenen, Movements: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Brodsky Quartet Robert Schumann, Composer Philip Fisher, Piano Kinderszenen, Movements: Curiose Geschichte Brodsky Quartet Philip Fisher, ...

The Takács Quartet is best known for its gritty but stylish approach to the music of German and Eastern European composers — Bartók, Beethoven, Haydn, and so forth. So there’s a certain frisson in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Debussy’s unmistakably Gallic quartet is usually paired with Ravel’s. Here we hear it alongside lesser-known chamber ...