- Quatuor Arpeggione
The Quatuor Arpeggione is a French string quartet, led by
Isabelle Flory (violin), withNicholas Risler (violin),Patrick Dussart (viola), andMarie-Thérèse Grisenti (cello).The quartet has played all over the world including performances at
London 'sWigmore Hall , theMusée d'Orsay ,Opéra Bastille andCarrousel du Louvre inParis , and recently at theMusique-Cordiale festivals in the Var, France and Britain. It has starred at major international festivals including the Salzburg, the Lockenhaus, the Schloss-Elmau (Germany), the Wiener Klassisch and the Ottawa "Strings of the Future" Festival, as well as at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. In 2005,Margaret Fingerhut playedCesar Franck 's passionate Piano Quintet with the quatuor at theConway Hall in London. In March 1996, the Arpeggione were invited to perform at the Elysée Palace by Yehudi Menuhin to celebrate his eightieth birthday.The repertoire of the Arpeggione is considerable in wealth, breadth and ambition, ranging from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven – along with Schubert, Schumann and Brahms – to Stravinsky, Bartok, Schönberg, Berg and Weber, with special mention to our "big three" French composers – Debussy, Fauré, Ravel. It recently revived Florent Schmitt's outstanding string quartet, which had never been played, at least in France, for forty years.
External links
* [http://www.musique-cordiale.com/index.php?id=21&L=0 Arpeggione Quartet at Musique-Cordiale Festival]
* [http://arpeggionequartet.com/ Arpeggione Quartet own site]
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