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	Belcea Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Belcea Quartet is a string quartet in-residence at Wigmore Hall in London since 2001.
		Belcea formed in 1994, while its members were studying at the Royal College of Music in London.
		Their debut recording with EMI won Gramophone Magazine's Debut Recording Prize.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belcea_Quartet (179 words)

	Belcea Quartet Opens International Ensembles Series (11.13.04)
		The Belcea Quartet was established at the Royal College of Music in 1994; its members are Corina Belcea violin, Laura Samuel, violin, Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola, and Alasdair Tait, cello.
		The Belcea Quartet was established in 1994 at the Royal College of Music in London.
		It was coached by the Chilingirian Quartet, Simon Rowland-Jones, and the Amadeus Quartet.
	www.92y.org /content/belcea_quartet_Nov_2004.asp (1002 words)

	Belcea String Quartet
		The Belcea Quartet has rapidly gained an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the younger generation.
		The Quartet was one of the guest artists for the BBC Radio 3 "New Generations" scheme from 1999 to 2001.
		The Belcea Quartet are supported by the Royal College of Music’s New Generation Scheme and by Zurich Financial Services Ltd. In May 2001, the Belcea Quartet received the Chamber Music Award of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
	www.yellowsprings.com /cmys/pages/about_the_artists/112005.html (621 words)

	Belcea Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Belcea Quartet is rapidly gaining an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the younger generation.
		In the 2003/2004 seasons, the Belcea Quartet took an extensive tour in Europe, including their debut performances at the Helsinki and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals, concerts in Zurich (Tonhalle), Vienna (Konzerthaus) and Milan (Societa del Quartetto di Milano) among others.
		The Quartet presented a Haydn/Bartok-series together with the Vertavo Quartet at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2004 and appeared as Artist-in-Residence at the Cheltenham Festival.
	www.thepharostrust.org /belceaphotopage.htm (301 words)

	Belcea String Quartet, City Recital Hall - smh.com.au
		Completing their national tour for Musica Viva, the London-based Belcea Quartet performed in the City Recital Hall in a program that was as stimulating as it was rewarding.
		This young quartet, named after its leader, Corina Belcea, is one of the rising stars of the European chamber music circuit.
		Her role in the F major Oboe Quartet of Mozart was a shining example not only of her virtuosity but also of her utter musicality.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/30/1033283435389.html (436 words)

	Rosalind Appleby — UWA Perth Festival: Belcea Quartet Plays Bartok - State of the Arts
		The Belcea Quartet’s performance of the entire string quartets by Bartok was a centrepiece of the chamber music program at the Perth Festival.
		The acclaimed British quartet had contributed lively and intelligent playing to concerts earlier in the festival and their first solo concert was much anticipated.
		Bartok’s early quartets are intense, moody explorations of atonality with rhythms and structures from folksongs integrated into the music.
	www.stateart.com.au /sota/reviews/default.asp?fid=4021 (756 words)

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		In the 2004-05 season the Belcea Quartet performed concerts in the U.S. (including in New York and Boston) and future U.S. tours are currently being planned.
		In the 2003/2004 season, the Belcea Quartet toured extensively in Europe, including their debut performances at the Helsinki and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals, concerts in Zürich (Tonhalle), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Milan (Societa del Quartetto di Milano), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts) and Frankfurt (Alte Oper).
		The Belcea Quartet was established at the Royal College of Music, where they were coached by the Chilingirian Quartet, Simon Rowland-Jones, and the Amadeus Quartet.
	www.artsmg.com /belcea_quartet/belcea_quartet.htm (504 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Belcea Quartet - Debussy, Dutilleux & Ravel :: Classical Music
		The Belcea Quartet impress immediately with a very persuasive account of Debussy’s only quartet, music betraying external influences that is feeling its way to Debussy’s singular soundworld (Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune was but a year away).
		Debussy’s Quartet is not a work that I’ve previously found too much in; it says something then for the Belcea’s insights that it has raised the work’s profile.
		The Belcea also make a lovely sound, one that is warm, variegated, subtle and instinctively right for the music being played; in the Debussy — and generally — the foursome are masters of fulsome attack, rhythmic brio, songful lines and searching expression, all rendered with emotion, sensitivity and musical focus.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_cd_review.php?id=181 (391 words)

	Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Belcea Quartet has gained an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the new generation.
		The Belcea Quartet was established at the Royal College Music in 1994, where they were coached by the Chilingirian Quartet, Simon Rowland-Jones and the Amadeus Quartet.
		The Belcea Quartet is supported by Rosalind and Brian Gilmore and the Royal College of Music’s New Generation Scheme.
	www.emiclassics.com /phpNewSite/artists/artists_bio.php?id=62 (315 words)

	Guardian \| Britten: String Quartets Nos 1-3; Three Divertimenti, Belcea Quartet
		The Belcea Quartet make no attempt to survey all of Benjamin Britten's music for string quartet on this pair of discs, confining themselves to the works performed and published during the composer's lifetime.
		So their accounts of the three numbered quartets are accompanied just by the set of three Divertimenti that Britten himself assembled in 1936 from music he had composed three years earlier for a projected five-movement suite.
		The Amadeus Quartet's version of the Third Quartet will keep its special place in the Britten discography, but for all three numbered quartets as well as the Divertimenti, the Belcea's is now the one to get.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5159795-108884,00.html (361 words)

	The Middlebury Campus - Quartet Strikes High Note
		The quartet was established at the Royal College of Music in London, although only the violinists, Corina Belcea and Laura Samuel, are English, while the violist Krzystof Chorzelski and cellist Alasdair Tait hale from farther east.
		With this quartet Haydn helped establish the four-movement form with two outer fast movements, a slow movement and a minuet, as well as a greater emotional range, which by today's standards is insignificant.
		The Quartet is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the leading quartets of the younger generation.
	www.middleburycampus.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=467e68e4-cfa3-47db-9ac2-434fbfda444c (629 words)

	Belcea Quartet @ Wigmore Hall, London : concert review
		Without doubt, the Belcea Quartet's delivery of Bartók's six string quartets was the highlight of the Wigmore Hall's Bartók Festival.
		The most remarkable aspect of the Belcea Quartet is their faultless ensemble playing.
		The same melody, though not exactly in the same form, is played by the cello in the introduction to the second movement and by the first violin in the introduction to the third movement.
	www.musicomh.com /classical/wig-belcea-2_0606.htm (519 words)

	Belcea
		The Belcea Quartet, the Wigmore Hall’s new Quartet in residence, is rapidly gaining an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the younger generation.
		The Belcea Quartet has also had works commissioned including Two Movements for String Quartet by Simon Holt - which received its world première at the Cheltenham Festival in July 2001 - as well as works by William Mival and Tatyana Komarova, the latter to be premiered at the Lucerne International Festival in 2002.
		The Quartet's first CD of quartets by Debussy, Ravel and Dutilleux was released last autumn, and has just won the Gramophone Award 2001 in the Debut category.
	www.linlithgowartsguild.co.uk /programme/events/year2001/clevedensingers.htm (555 words)

	Britten: String Quartets, Etc / Belcea Quartet \| ArkivMusic
		Laura Samuel, Corina Belcea, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Alasdair Tait
		I hope young quartets listen to tapes of those first performances, because no current account comes within an ocean’s breadth of their expressive power, not even the Amadeus in the studio for Decca.
		The Belcea Quartet though, is unmatched in observance of Britten’s careful markings, in technical aplomb, and in the Divertimenti.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=101657 (598 words)

	Belcea Quartet: Brahms - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The classical master's string works are performed by the Belcea Quartet, with violist Thomas Kakuska added on the second piece.
		In its third recording for EMI, the youthful Belcea Quartet approaches two works by Brahms with abundant energy and eagerness to please, but with less insight and conviction than the pieces demand.
		However, their emotional involvement with the music is not adequately communicated, due either to their facility or, possibly, to a predetermined scheme of moods.
	www.yourmusic.com /browse/album/56938.html (369 words)

	Guardian \| Belcea Quartet
		On the basis of a handful of his better-known works, the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is sometimes dismissed as a hedonist, more concerned with surface beauty floating on an ocean of lush harmony than with strong ideas rigorously developed.
		But this programme, built around his two string quartets with some of his violin and piano works in between, confirmed a far wider, and more impressive range of skills.
		Neither quartet is a standard repertory piece, though the Belcea Quartet played them as if they were in their blood as well as their fingers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5221135-110430,00.html (354 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The Belcea Quartet is a young ensemble that, on the evidence of this disc, has an affinity for Brahms' often knotty chamber works.
		The Belcea's C minor quartet is trumped by its performance of the Op.
		The second viola is played by Thomas Kakuska of the Alban Berg Quartet, and we may surmise that his experienced presence may account for the wider dynamic range than we hear in the Quartet.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7622 (299 words)

	Askonas Holt: News
		The quartet has an exclusive recording contract with EMI and won the Gramophone Award for the Best Debut Recording in 2001.
		Responses to their performances include: 'The Belcea Quartet already bears the hallmarks of greatness' (The Strad) and 'astonishingly mature in sound, though young in years, the Belcea Quartet left me wondering if it wasn't the best young quartet I had ever heard' (The Independent on Sunday).
		The Belcea Quartet has been the Resident Quartet of Wigmore Hall since 2001, where this season's concerts include a new commission by Gordon Kerry for quartet and voice with Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Schoenberg’s 2nd String Quartet with Lisa Milne.
	www.askonasholt.co.uk /green/green/home.nsf/0/92e9daf1042a071080256f35002d747e?OpenDocument (361 words)

	DEbussy, Dutilleux, Ravel: Belcea Quartet CDZ574020-2 [CC]: Classical Reviews- January 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Belcea Quartet’s sensitivity to instrumental colour means that they can realise the frequent shifts of the second movement.
		Competition is indeed fierce, especially as EMI have recently re-released the Alban Berg Quartet’s accounts of these two classics on EMI CDM 5 67550-2 (coupled with works for this medium by Stravinsky review), and the Quartetto Italiano’s finely-honed versions are on Philips 50, 464 699-2 (this time, though, with no coupling) review.
		The Dutilleux may well be the deciding factor: the Belcea Quartet brings an authority beyond its years to their performance.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Jan02/Belcea.htm (648 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Belcea Quartet
		The Belcea Quartet are young, adventurous and not afraid to take on Beethoven’s most challenging music.
		For the most part, the quartet had the right perspective on the character of the individual movements.
		Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake and the Belcea Quartet (19-Aug-02)
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=945592002&format=email (306 words)

	MDT - 5579682, EMI CD
		The Belcea Quartet’s first CD for EMI, featuring quartets by Debussy, Ravel and Dutilleux, was released on the Debut Series in Autumn 2000.
		Quartet in residence at London’s Wigmore Hall and Oxford’s Jacqueline du Pré Room, the Belcea Quartet travel all over the world and are rapidly building a reputation as one of the finest string ensembles in the world.
		The Belcea Quartet thus joins such distinguished predecessors in the catalogue as the Amadeus (DG), Sorrel (Chandos), Maggini (Naxos), Brodsky (Channel), Endellion (EMI) and Britten (Collins), though the last two are currently hard to find.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/5579682.htm (393 words)

	Quartets Old and New, and Songs About Flowers and Plants - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		THE Belcea Quartet, a young group from Britain, showed its sense of high drama in a Shostakovich performance at Zankel Hall a couple of weeks back.
		Meticulous splicers and editors don't seem to have had a second crack at some of the quick passagework; the impression left behind is that the spirit of the whole is usually worth more than the perfection of the parts.
		The "Quartettsatz," a single movement of an incomplete string quartet, found among the works of several composers, becomes a "Quartetset": a group of seven movements that add up to a quartet of half an hour's duration.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/04/02/arts/music/02holl.html?ex=1301630400&en=8b985cbdbee68596&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (985 words)

	The Edinburgh Festival 2001 - Belcea Quartet Review
		It is no surprise that the Belcea Quartet have been given residency at the Wigmore Hall.
		Each player's voice is brought out beautifully: the leader is very much the leader, with virtuosic skill and such exquisite tone; the second a very different player, complementing the first line perfectly; and such moments of beauty from the middle and bass parts.
		It was played with panache, and with an impressive understanding of Haydn's tehniques in his later quartets.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2001/eif2001/review_belceaquartet.shtml (320 words)

	Debut - Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel: String Quartets / Belcea \| ArkivMusic
		In the Ravel, the Belcea may lack the suave tone of the Leipzig String Quartet (reviewed elsewhere), but I like their plucky way with the Scherzo even better (I imagine that Ravel conceived this movement to sound like a giant Flamenco guitar), and leader Corina Belcea’s faster trills seem more appropriate than her Leipzig counterpart’s.
		The Belcea’s Debussy shares these same virtues, though the slow movement (at 7:23) errs a little on the fast side for my taste (however, the playing itself is exquisite).
		The Paganini Quartet (Henri Temianka, Gustave Rosseels, Charles Foidart, and Adolphe Frezin) engraved top-notch Debussy and Ravel in the late 1940s that appeared on early RCA 10-inch LPs, which somebody ought to reissue.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=12368 (933 words)

	Belcea String Quartet - www.playquartet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Belcea string Quartet education activities at Wigmore Hall are supported by The Clore Duffield Foundation.
		Come and see how Mozart brought the human intimacy and drama of his operas to the string quartet as the Belcea String Quartet looks at the Mozart works to be performed during the Competition.
		With plenty of live musical illustrations from the Cox Quartet, the Belcea String Quartet suggests that Mozart's mature quartets owe much of their style to the expressive and dramatic sound-worlds of his operas.
	www.playquartet.com /belcea-string-quartet (371 words)

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		The Belcea Quartet, the young English ensemble that has dazzled chamber music circles in England and Europe, brought its exceptional sound to the Lobero Theatre on Monday night.
		Benjamin Britten’s String Quartet No. 3 was positioned between these two powerful works, and the musicians gave it the same diligence and devotion as the others.
		His Quartet No. 3, written a year before his death, has been described as reflecting the aging composer’s lifelong preoccupation with men and young boys.
	www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/entertain/readarticle.cgi?article=1255 (309 words)

	Britain’s Belcea Quartet returns to Middlebury College with a concert honoring Mozart and Shostakovich March 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Considered a leading quartet of the new generation, the Belcea Quartet is famous on the British and international chamber music scene.
		Founded in 1994 at London’s Royal College of Music, the Belcea Quartet was coached by the Chilingirian Quartet, the Amadeus Quartet and Simon Rowland-Jones.
		The Belcea Quartet regularly attends many of Europe’s annual chamber music festivals and has increased its number of U.S. performances in recent years.
	www.middlebury.edu /about/newsevents/news632774049245833938.htm (521 words)

	Saint Paul Sunday: Belcea String Quartet
		England's acclaimed Belcea Quartet opens its program with Benjamin Britten's first quartet, a work that allows each player to shine by giving the solo line to a different instrument for each of the four movements.
		The Belcea Quartet takes a correspondingly egalitarian approach to the spectrum of its own repertoire, going on to play a Haydn allegro, Italian opera music by Hugo Wolff, and a haunting movement from "Arcadiana" by young British composer Thomas Adès.
		I can’t quite remember when I first heard about Belcea, but it was probably the fact that they were named quartet in residence at London’s Wigmore Hall that grabbed my attention....
	saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /programs/548 (179 words)

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