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Active from
  
1994

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Members
  
Corina Belcea, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Antoine Lederlin, Axel Schacher, Alasdair Tait, Laura Samuel, Matthew Talty

Albums
  
Brahms: String Quartets & Piano Quintet

Record labels
  
Warner Classics, EMI Classics, Zig-Zag Territoires, Warner Classics UK, BBC Music Magazine, Alpha

Nominations
  
Classic Brit Critics Award

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The Belcea Quartet is a string quartet, formed in 1994, under the leadership of violinist Corina Belcea.

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History

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The quartet was formed while its members were studying at the Royal College of Music in London. Whilst there, they were coached by the Chilingirian Quartet. They subsequently studied with the Alban Berg Quartet at Cologne.

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The quartet was one of the first groups to participate in the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme, from 1999 to 2001. They made their Carnegie Hall debut in 2000 as part of the 'Distinctive Debuts' series. Their first performance at the Edinburgh International Festival was in August 2001. The Belcea Quartet were quartet in-residence at Wigmore Hall in London from 2001 to 2006. During their Wigmore residency, the quartet participated in the first performances of The Canticle of the Rose by Joseph Phibbs.

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In the 2010/11 season, the Belcea Quartet will give the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage’s new work for string quartet Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad at Wigmore Hall, Cologne Philharmonie, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus. In May 2011, they will be curating their own ‘Beethoven & Schubert: Final Years’ project with concerts in Aldeburgh, the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium and Philharmonie Luxembourg, collaborating with Imogen Cooper, Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Julius Drake and Valentin Erben. Towards the end of 2011, the Belcea Quartet will embark on an ambitious survey of the complete string quartets by Beethoven with cycles of concerts planned in the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden and the USA.

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The Belcea Quartet won the Gramophone Award for best debut recording in 2001. Their discography for EMI includes Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson with Ian Bostridge; Schubert’s Trout Quintet with Thomas Adès and Corin Long; a double disc of Britten’s string quartets, which won a MIDEM Cannes Award; Mozart’s “Dissonance” and “Hoffmeister” quartets; and the complete Bartók quartets, for which the Quartet was awarded the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany's Echo Klassik Awards and nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award. Their most recent release, a double disc of the late Schubert Quartets and the String Quintet with Valentin Erben for EMI, was nominated for a Gramophone Award.

The Belcea Quartet are Quartet in Residence Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and, from the beginning of the 2010/11 season, Ensemble in Residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Current members

  • Corina Belcea-Fisher, violin
  • Axel Schacher, violin
  • Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola
  • Antoine Lederlin, cello

    • Former members

  • Alasdair Tait, cello
  • Laura Samuel, violin
  • Matthew Talty, cello

    • Recordings

    Partial list of recordings:

  • Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel - String Quartets, 2001
  • Schubert - String Quartets, 2002
  • Brahms - String Quartets, 2004
  • Britten - String Quartets, 2005
  • Schubert - Trout Quintet (with pianist Thomas Adès), 2005
  • Mozart - String Quartets, 2006 (original line-up)
  • Béla Bartók - Complete String Quartets, 2008
  • Franz Schubert - String Quintet (with Valentin Erben), Quartet in G, Quartet in D minor, 2009
  • Beethoven - Complete String Quartets, 2014

    • Selected concert reviews

  • Tim Ashley, "Belcea/ Bostridge/ Adès". The Guardian, 7 December 2001.
  • Ivan Hewett, "Poise and personality". Telegraph, 9 July 2002.
  • Tom Service, "Bostridge/ Drake/ Belcea Quartet". The Guardian, 19 August 2002.
  • Geoffrey Norris, "Quest for the new". Telegraph, 31 October 2002.
  • Geoffrey Norris, "Profundity and vision". Telegraph, 4 March 2003.
  • David Fanning, "Aldeburgh Festival: precision of a madman". Telegraph, 24 June 2003.
  • Andrew Clements, "The Turn of the Screw". The Guardian, 20 July 2004.
  • Tom Service, "Belcea Quartet/Kildea". The Guardian, 1 November 2004.
  • Erica Jeal, "Janacek at 150". The Guardian, 16 December 2004.
  • Rian Evans, "An Evening in Buenos Aires" (review from Bath Festival). The Guardian, 7 June 2005.
  • George Hall, review of June 2005 Wigmore Hall concert. The Guardian, 22 June 2005.
  • Geoffrey Norris, "Four strings weave a taut web". Telegraph, 5 June 2006.
  • Geoffrey Norris, "Apt tribute to Britten's originality". Telegraph, 5 December 2006.

    • Songs

    String Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 51 No 1: IV AllegroBrahms: String Quartets · 2009
    String Quartet No 4 - Sz91: V Allegro moltoString Quartets 1-6 · 2008
    Piano Quintet in F Minor - Op 34: I Allegro non troppoBrahms: String Quartets & Piano Quintet · 2016

    References

    Belcea Quartet Wikipedia
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