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While his discography might recommend a preference for chamber and recital repertory, cellist Christian Poltéra regularly appears as soloist with leading orchestras in Europe, the U.K., and U.S. Certainly, and he manages to stability his single, chamber, and recital concerts quite consistently and in an amazingly wide range of repertory …

Founded in 1994, the Zehetmair Quartett quickly obtained international prominence and critical acclaim because of its energetic, imaginative, and meticulously wrought performances from the string quartet repertoire. Contacting the group “refreshingly iconoclastic,” critic Harris Goldsmith from the American Record Instruction especially praised the interpretation of Robert Schumann’s String Quartet, Op. …

Violist Ruth Killius, along with her spouse Thomas Zehetmair, is a co-founder from the Zehetmair Quartet, an ensemble which has won awards because of its recordings of Hartmann, Schumann, Hindemith, and Bartók. She and Zehetmair also perform like a duo so that as a trio with cellist Rosie Biss. Killius …