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…
“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…
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 Dirk Fischer, the Nippon Music Fondation for the loan of the Stradivari…
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 pandemic has reached Germany as well. If you like, you can purchase our new…
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 Weinberg himself.
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…
“Ensemble in Residence” @JM International Chamber Music Campus
The Kuss Quartet is invited as “Ensemble in Residence” to teach string quartets and other chamber music ensembles at the 64th Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Campus from September…
Opus Klassik
The Kuss Quartet has just been awarded with the Opus Klassik (successor to the Echo Klassik Prize) together with Hinrich Alpers, Hanno Müller-Brachmann and several other colleagues for the album…
Beethoven-Cycle in Hitzacker
At the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, the Kuss Quartet completed its first Beethoven cycle — various media such as the WELT, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the Kieler Nachrichten reported about this.…