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ALBUMMozart: String Quintets, K. 515 & 516Quatuor Ébène & Antoine Tamestit
Albums by Quatuor Ébène
ALBUMMozart: String Quintets, K. 515 & 516Quatuor Ébène & Antoine Tamestit
ALBUM'Round MidnightQuatuor Ébène, Antoine Tamestit & Nicolas Altstaedt
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: Paris, String Quartets Nos 3 & 15Quatuor Ébène
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: Nairobi, String Quartets Nos 4, 5 & 16Quatuor Ébène
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: Melbourne, String Quartets Nos 2, 10 & 11Quatuor Ébène
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: São Paulo, String Quartets Nos 6 & 12Quatuor Ébène
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: Philadelphia, String Quartets Nos 1 & 14Quatuor Ébène
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: The Complete String QuartetsQuatuor Ébène
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: Tokyo, String Quartets Nos 9 & 13, Grosse fugeQuatuor Ébène
ALBUMBeethoven Around the World: Vienna, String Quartets Nos 7 & 8Quatuor Ébène
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Nicolas Altstaedt, Quatuor Ébène & Antoine Tamestit
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A string quartet with a reputation for wide-ranging repertoire, from jazz to Mozart.
Artist Biography
One of a new breed of ensembles determined to throw off the stuffy image associated with the string quartet, the Quatuor Ébène has proved as revelatory in popular genres as they are playing Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert. Founded in 1999 at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory, the quartet established an early reputation for their bracingly fresh approach to the classics, which over time morphed into a desire to recapture the shock of the new for contemporary audiences. Their purely classical credentials are impeccable, as witnessed by intellectually probing yet sensual takes on the quartets of Ravel, Debussy, and Fauré (rec. 2008), and a groundbreaking cycle of Beethoven’s quartets recorded “live” Around the World (2020), which fully endorses their HIP (historically informed practice) credentials of taking absolutely nothing for granted. For a taste of life on the wilder side, try Fiction (2013), the quartet’s eclectic collection of 16 pop and jazz standards, featuring an unmissable “Some Day My Prince Will Come” (from Walt Disney’s Snow White), complete with an a cappella introduction sung in French.
Hometown
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Genre
Classical