On its new album Edge of the Storm, the San Francisco-based Telegraph Quartet explores string quartets from 1941-51. My interview for The Strad:
Edge of the Storm, the new album by the Telegraph Quartet, is the second instalment in its ongoing 20th-Century Vantage Points series – a curatorial project that maps key string quartet works against the seismic historical forces of the last century. Where the first volume (Divergent Paths, 2023) explored the early modernist rupture through Ravel and Schoenberg, this new release turns to the years 1941–1951: a turbulent decade shaped by war, exile, and the search for renewal….
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 