Danel Quartet
The Danel Quartet is a French string quartet established in June 1991.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 will be in residence at the Wigmore Hall for a complete double of Shostakovich and Weinberg's string quartets.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
- Dmitri Shostakovich - complete string quartes
- Peter Swinnen, Lydia Chagoll - La vieille dame et la fille nomade
- Ahmet Adnan Saygun - complete string quartets
- Hao-Fu Zhang - Qia-Xiao
- Felix Mendelssohn - String quartets, op. 44, No 1 and 2
- Pascal Dusapin, René Koering - String quartets
- Elmar Lampson - Fadenkreuze
- Adolphe Biarent - Quintet with piano
- André Souris - Musics
- Benoît Mernier - Les idées heureuses
- Patrick De Clerck - Chamber music
- Charles Gounod - String quartets
- Manuel Rosenthal - 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 .
