Chiaroscuro Quartet - String Quartets 18 1-3For a string player, Beethoven's 16 quartets are of an importance similar to that of his sonatas to a pianist, or his symphonies to a conductor. As a body they form the culmination of all the chamber music composed before them, and to this day they remain a benchmark for every composer of string quartets. The Chiaroscuro Quartet begin their cycle of these works at the same place as Beethoven did, with the Op. 18 set which occupied him intensively for

matchless virtuosity and surprising repertoire ideas with long forgotten melodies set in totally new and original arrangements

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Lorenzo Coppola

She began playing cello in Israel at five and at sixteen was invited by Isaac Stern to continue her studies in the US

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