A string quartet made up of two married couples is pretty unusual. The ConTempo Quartet, Galway’s ensemble-in-residence, is one. The half-Irish, half-English Carducci String Quartet is another. For ...
Musical nicknames are good for business. Haydn’s set of six string quartets, Op 33, has had nicknames for the whole set, none of which is very widely used. “Russian”, favoured by BIS, remembers the ...