Amati Quartet

The Amati Quartet is rolling out a solid reputation because of its uniqueness of sound, designed for its sonic unanimity, grasp of structure, and all-encompassing technique. Because the mid-’80s it’s been ranked not merely among the best possible Swiss string quartets, but being among the most talented Western european quartets to possess emerged in the latter twentieth hundred years. The repertory is certainly broad, encompassing functions by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Szymanowski, Janácek, Zemlinsky, Bartók, Shostakovich, and Ravel. They also have performed many modern functions, including premieres of compositions created designed for them by American minimalist Terry Riley and prominent Swiss composer Robert Suter. The group provides frequently concertized throughout European countries, the U.S., and Asia, and in one of the most esteemed concert halls, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Paris’ Champs-Elysees, as well as the Berlin Konzerthaus. The Amati String Quartet provides produced many recordings for a number of Western european brands, including Jecklin, K & K Verlagsanstalt, Venetian Classics, and Divox Information. In 2008, its workers contains violinists Sebastian Hamann and Katarzyna Nawrotek, violist Nicolas Corti, and cellist Claudius Herrmann. The Amati Quartet was founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1981 and its own rise to prominence was nearly instant: in 1982 it gained the Top Grand Prix on the Evian International Competition and the next year captured the town of Zurich’s Arts Award. The group’s competition réamounté was crowned with First Award on the Karl Klinger Competition in Munich, Germany, in 1986. The Amati players produced among their most effective recordings the next season, the Shostakovich String Quartets 3 & 7, released by Jecklin. That work, and a afterwards disk of Ravel and Szymanowski quartets, received the Award from the German Record Reviewers. Through the entire 1990s and initial decade of the brand new hundred years, the Amati players proved a steady blast of extremely acclaimed recordings, like the 2002 Columns Vintage CD from the Schubert “Trout” Quintet and Mendelssohn’s Piano Sextet. The Amati’s U.S. tour in 2003 was another great achievement and included an acclaimed SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA debut in an application of Beethoven (Op. 18/5), Janácek (the Kreutzer Sonata), Schubert (the Rosamunde), and additional functions. Among the Amati Quartet’s later on recordings may be the 2007 launch on Divox Information from the Shostakovich Piano Quintet and String Quartet No. 12, with pianist Bruno Canino.