Danel Quartet
The Danel Quartet is a French/Belgian string quartet established in June 1991. Known for classical, early modern and contemporary repertoire, they tour internationally and have an extensive discography. They have both recorded and performed the first complete cycle of string quartets by Mieczysław Weinberg and have undertaken a complete cycle of the quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich as well.
History
The ensemble has worked with the Amadeus Quartet. For Shostakovich's complete string quartets, it worked with the Borodin Quartet and Fyodor Druzhinin of the Beethoven Quartet and also with Pierre Penassou and Walter Levin, both members of the LaSalle Quartet. The Danel Quartet performs the classical repertoire as well as contemporary music. They are specialized in the Russian repertoire. Their recordings of Shostakovich's and Weinberg's quartets are a reference.Since 2005, the Danel Quartet has been "Quartet in Residence" at the University of Manchester, and since 2016, in residence at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht. From 2019 to 2021, they were in residence at the Wigmore Hall for a complete double of Shostakovich and Weinberg's string quartets.
During the Bruckner Year 2024, the Danel Quartet performed on 1 October an integral of the compositions for string quartet, which Anton Bruckner composed between 1861 and 1863 during his lessons with Otto Kitzler – including a premiere of the Six Scherzos for string quartet, WAB 209.
Members
- Marc Danel – first violin
- Gilles Milet – second violin
- Vlad Bogdanas – viola
- Yovan Markovitch – cello
Premieres
- Olivier Greif, String quartet No 2
- Krzysztof Meyer, String quartet No 14 « Au-delà de l'absence »
- Alexander Raskatov, Gebet for soprano and String quartet
- Bruno Mantovani, les fées string quartet
- Bruno Mantovani, Quintet with harp
- Bruno Mantovani, Quintet with 2 cellos
- Wolfgang Rihm, Sextet for clarinet, horn and string quartet
Discography
- Prokofiev: The String Quartets
- Dmitri Shostakovich – complete string quartets
- Peter Swinnen, Lydia Chagoll – La vieille dame et la fille nomade
- Ahmet Adnan Saygun – complete string quartets
- Pascal Dusapin, René Koering – String quartets
- Hao-Fu Zhang – Qia-Xiao
- Felix Mendelssohn – String quartets, op. 44, No 1 and 2
- Elmar Lampson – Fadenkreuze
- Adolphe Biarent – Quintet with piano
- André Souris – Musics
- Benoît Mernier – Les idées heureuses
- Charles Gounod – String quartets
- Manuel Rosenthal – Chamber music
- Patrick De Clerck – Chamber music
- Nicolas Bacri – Chamber music
- Alexandre Raskatov – Chamber music
- Mieczysław Weinberg – complete string quartets — World premieres of quartets 3, 4 and 6
- César Franck – quartets and quintets with piano with