Reviews Schubert/ ter Schiphorst
„It’s not often that you get a chamber disc over which gripping, cumulative storytelling and bringing the repertoire forwards are favoured so entirely over playlist hits. This is how to programme…
Out now!
Our new recording is released — you can listen to it or buy it HERE! And we even received the first review: “What an exciting chamber music recording!” (Guido Fischer, Rondomagazin)
Schubert, ter Schiphorst & Andre
A new album will be released by Rubicon Classics very soon: we have recorded Franz Schubert’s most famous string quartet, Death and the Maiden, and combined it on a CD with “Sei gutes Muts” by Iris…
Can you hear crisis?
BBC Music Magazine: “… the playing is exquisitely judged, shifting between fragility and strength, alienation and familiarity. The recorded sound is intimate, creating compelling sonic affinities.” The Strad: „It’s a high-concept offering, almost a playlist of music…
“CRISIS”
—–COMING SOON—- From ‘free time’ (our last album was called ‘Berlin FREETime’) to ‘CRISIS’ … For after the cultural wasteland of the pandemic years of 2020/21, we are forced to acknowledge that our lives in the societies we live and work in aren’t looking much…
“Sei gutes Muts” — Video Release
We are pleased to release our music video “Sei gutes Muts” by the great composer Iris ter Schiphorst. Premiered in summer 2021, it was commissioned by us and Maurice Steger as well as the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker and recorded as a music video at the end of…
“Force and Freedom” — digital version
Together with the Kuss Quartet, the ensemble Nico and the Navigators wanted to contribute to the Beethoven year 2020 an extraordinary performance on various european stages: the title was “Force and Freedom”, they wanted «music in the existential tension between…
Digital Lockdown-Memory Game
The Memory-Game, where one can win tickets for the Schwetzinger Festspiele 2021, is now online. Good Luck!
Kuss @IDAGIO Live
The Kuss Quartet is invited at IDAGIO Live for a little series with four episodes starting April 29th — alongside with artists like Iván Fischer, Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Hampson and others, presenting their recordings, musical ideas and insights on the Classical…
“CRISIS”
—–COMING SOON—- From ‘free time’ (our last album was called ‘Berlin FREETime’) to ‘CRISIS’ … For after the cultural wasteland of the pandemic years of 2020/21, we are forced to acknowledge…
“Sei gutes Muts” — Video Release
We are pleased to release our music video “Sei gutes Muts” by the great composer Iris ter Schiphorst. Premiered in summer 2021, it was commissioned by us and Maurice Steger as well as the…
“Force and Freedom” — digital version
Together with the Kuss Quartet, the ensemble Nico and the Navigators wanted to contribute to the Beethoven year 2020 an extraordinary performance on various european stages: the title was “Force and…
Digital Lockdown-Memory Game
The Memory-Game, where one can win tickets for the Schwetzinger Festspiele 2021, is now online. Good Luck!
Kuss @IDAGIO Live
The Kuss Quartet is invited at IDAGIO Live for a little series with four episodes starting April 29th — alongside with artists like Iván Fischer, Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Hampson and others,…
Out Now! All Beethoven Quartets Live from Suntory Hall
We are immensely happy to present you the result from many years of our quartet life. Finally, the CD box with 8 CDs have just been released at Rubicon Classics. Many thanks to our sound engineer…
Concerts cancelled
Dear friends, dear fans, unfortunately we have to let you know that our concerts in Warstein, Paderborn, Kleve as well as Hameln and Amsterdam have been canceled or postponed. The coronavirus…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Piano Quintet with Olga Scheps
The new album with pianist Olga Scheps has just been released by Sony Classical. The first review at RBB Kultur is very positive and compares it to the recording of the famous Borodin Quartet and…
Highlights 2019/20
The Kuss Quartet continues performing Beethovens String Quartet cycle in the upcoming season, which they will perform in several concerts in October & March in Hanover. Furthermore, the ensemble…
“Beethoveniana” — Bruno Mantovani
“Beethoveniana”, the new commissioned work of Bruno Mantovani will be premiered in June 2019 at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Other prestigious commissioners, next to the quartet itself and the Suntory…