The string quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel not only rank among the most recorded string quartets, they are most often found together on the same recording. Debussy composed his quartet in ...

This evergreen pairing – Debussy and Ravel wrote one quartet each – repays subtlety and restraint, and that is what we get from the Dantes, one of the UK’s finest quartets. They find all manner of ...

Written 10 years apart, Ravel and Debussy’s quartets are often compared. Indeed, Ravel greatly admired Debussy’s quartet and sought to produce a work equal to that of his elder colleague. He ended up ...

The shifts of light and shade in Debussy’s String Quartet are ear-catchingly etched in by the Dante Quartet on a disc pairing the Debussy with a work that pays homage to it, the Quartet by Ravel. The ...

Consider two string quartets, locally based and with loyal followings, each in the midst of an important anniversary season (read big round number), and each performing a very French-inspired program, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Debussy’s unmistakably Gallic quartet is usually paired with Ravel’s. Here we hear it alongside lesser-known chamber ...

The versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...

The polished, intelligent music-making of the Tokyo players provides wonderfully alive, full-bodied readings of the two greatest essays in string quartet form by French composers. Slow movements are ...

The Eroica Quartet have won plenty of plaudits for their previous recordings on Harmonia Mundi. Their latest release, of the quartets of Ravel and birthday-boy Debussy, is a download-only issue from ...