This album, recorded in 2023, marks a new phase for the Quatuor Ébène, as it was made to bid farewell to their cellist Raphaël Merlin, who had become proficient in software-based score writing.
Recording & Production
The arrangements on this album were made in-house by the Quatuor Ébène, who would never have used an outside arranger.
Performer Biography
Quatuor Ébène, the string quartet performing on this album, was founded a few weeks before the millennium bug in 2000.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The Quatuor Ébène found that approaching 'light music' (U-Musik) with seriousness brought lightness and renewed inspiration to their performances of 'serious music' (E-Musik), including works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Performer Biography
The Quatuor Ébène has previously released albums of arrangements, including Fiction (2010), Brazil (2014), and Eternal Stories (2017), and has collaborated with artists like Stacey Kent and Natalie Dessay.
Performer Biography
The Quatuor Ébène's improvisation and arrangements of jazz, pop, and chanson themes became their trademark, allowing them to reach new, often younger audiences who might hear Mendelssohn and Bartók alongside Django Reinhardt or Chick Corea in the same concert.
Interpretation
The Quatuor Ébène's mentor, Eberhard Feltz, encouraged their arrangements and improvisations as long as they continued to practice Beethoven's opus 18 quartets.
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