Bartók, Fauré, and Beethoven: Ebène Quartet

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Experience three very different string quartets played by this acclaimed young ensemble. The Ebène Quartet plays highly individual works by Beethoven, Bartók, and Fauré.

Bartók's idiosyncratic Fourth Quartet is unusual even in terms of the composer's highly‐experimental output, with mathematically‐influenced structures and a mixture of tonal centers combined in a single work. Fauré's only String Quartet was also the composer's final work, having shied away from the genre — to the detriment of the repertoire, as this ethereal work shows — his entire career. Beethoven's 'Harp' Quartet is so‐called because of a pizzicato technique employed in alternating sequences, like the plucking of a harp.