Dudok Quartet
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The performances of both the Saariaho and Shostakovich are extremely insightful. The Shostakovich is outstanding in delineating the quartet's disturbing narrative, from seemingly carefree innocence... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Chamber Choice
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The Dudok Quartet’s gift is to hear Ligeti in Ligeti even when he couldn’t hear it in himself...The First Quartet is Tom and Jerry in black and white, the Second is their Technicolor reincarnation,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Brahms: The String Quartets & String Quintet No. 2
Dudok Quartet, Lilli Maijala (viola)
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Mike Fentross (theorbo), Maarten Ornstein (bass clarinet), Hilary Summers (contralto), Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
They move seamlessly through the ages, masters of every musical language they perform: Irish jig , Scottish folksong, Welsh lullaby, Renaissance lute songs, each piece layered with an improvisatory... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Chamber Choice
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The Dudok Quartet ’s playing is vigorous, intense and at times thrilling. Roukens’s string quartet in particular merits repeated and rewarded listening. —
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Even if you think Tchaikovsky's string quartets are staple fare - in fact only the First is a regular visitor to concert halls - you'll find them transfigured by the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam…I... —
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The Dudok Quartet responds brilliantly to all [the] facets of Ligeti’s persona, and their performance can fully stand comparison with the Arditti Quartet’s 1994 recording, which was supervised... —
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The Dudoks deliver a rhythmically dynamic and wonderfully nuanced account of the Bacewicz. Their Shostakovich is also impressive, projecting tremendous power, ferocity and forward momentum in... —
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This is an appealing, postmodern collage, an attempt to remember, imagine and invent history and identity - a novel by Sebald, Elias Khoury or Hoda Barakat, in sound. —
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The Dudok offer a driving account of the first movement of Mendelssohn’s last quartet, conveying vividly its rhetoric and sense of desperation, and their immaculate ensemble is very impressive…From... —
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