The Carducci String Quartet, who made their Kilkenny Arts Festival debut in 2007, and gave a complete cycle of Shostakovich’s quartets for the festival last year, are back again this year for a set of ...

How do a string quartet pursue their dream of the ideal ensemble sound? James Jolly caught up with the Carducci Quartet to learn about how they went about it I’ve never given a lot of thought as to ...

If that’s what the Carducci String Quartet was trying to do on their début visit to Liverpool, then they did all the right things. They mesmerised the audience with their performance of the second of ...

LITTLE ROCK — I’m not sure what folks expected from a half-British, half-Irish quartet with an Italian name going into Thursday night’s concert in the Parish Hall of Little Rock’s St. Mark’s Episcopal ...

Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the twentieth-century's great musical geniuses, a composer who lived through one of the era’s most oppressive dictatorships. Now The Carducci Quartet will play his ...

Having whetted our appetite with Duality Pt: 01 (Self-Produced, 2024), saxophonist Dom Franks, together with his band StrayHorn, returns with Duality Pt: 02, revealing another side of the ...

ONE of the world's most exciting young string quartets in the world is set to make a welcome return to north Cork. The Carducci Quartet will return to the hallowed grounds of the Bowenscourt Church, ...

Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. He completed only 15, but they span his entire mature period as a ...

If anything, this concert – part of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music series - was all about Shostakovich. Described at the outset by first violin Matthew Denton, this is to be the ...