Cuarteto Quiroga

String Quartet
Management: Spain - Portugal
Artist

Cuarteto Quiroga, appointed quartet-in-residence in charge of the Royal Collection of decorated Stradivarius at Madrid’s Royal Palace, has established itself as one of the most dynamic and unique quartets of its generation, winning international acclaim from critics and audiences alike for its distinctive personality as well as its bold and original approach to the string quartet repertoire.

The quartet honours the memory of galician violinist Manuel Quiroga, one of the most outstanding instrumentalist of spanish music history.

The group studied at Madrid’s Escuela Reina Sofia with Professor Rainer Schmidt, at the Musikhochschule Basel with Walter Levin, and at the ECMA with Prof. Hatto Beyerle. Other important influences are Johannes Meissl, György Kurtág, András Keller, Eberhard Feltz and Ferenc Rados.
Prizewinners of several major international competitions (Bordeaux, Paolo Borciani, Genève, Beijing, Fnapec-Paris, Palau-Barcelona), the ensemble appears regularly worldwide (Wigmore Hall London, Philarmonie Berlin, Frick Collection and Lincoln Center New York, , DaCamera LosAngeles, National Gallery Washington DC, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Invalides Paris, Martinu Hall Prague, Nybrokajen Stockholm, Auditorio Nacional-Madrid, Heidelberger Frühling, Stadtcasino Basel, Mozarteum Salzburg, String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, etc.) and was awarded the Spanish National Radio Culture Prize.

Frequent stage partners include Martha Argerich, Veronika Hagen, Valentin Erben, Javier Perianes,  Richard Lester, Alain Meunier, David Kadouch, Jonathan Brown, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Tomas Djupsjöbacka, Chen Halevy, and the Doric, Meta4, Ardeo and Galatea string quartets.

Strongly committed to chamber music teaching, they hold the String Quartet Chair at Zaragoza’s Conservatorio Superior (CSMA), and they are regularly invited to give masterclasses at universities and music conservatories throughout Europe, USA and Latin America.

Their CD-albums “Statements” and “(R)evolutions” (COBRA), have been acclaimed by the international press and awarded several prizes and distinctions. “Statements”, with music of Haydn, Webern and Sollima won the “CD of the year 2012 Award”, given by the Independent Producers Union (UFI). “(R)evolutions”, dedicated to the early music of Schönberg, Webern and Alban Berg, was awarded, among several other distinctions, with the label “Exceptional CD” given by Scherzo, Spain’s leading music magazine. They have recently released two new CD titles: “Frei Aber Einsam”, dedicated to the Opus 51 quartets by Johannes Brahms (Cobra) and a collaboration with pianist Javier Perianes including the piano quintets of Granados and Turina (Harmonia Mundi). Both recordings have already been praised by such prestigious reviewers as The Strad, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine (UK), Luister (NL), El País (Spain) and have already received awards and recognitions from several magazines (Scherzo, Pizzicato, Ritmo, Melómano, ICMA, etc.) and broadcasting corporations, such as the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR.

Cuarteto Quiroga has its official residence throughout the year at Madrid’s Cerralbo Museum. Mr.Sierra would like to thank Paola Modiano’s heirs for the generous opportunity to play the 1682 Nicola Amati violin “Arnold Rosé”.

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Repertoire

Marcial del Adalid

String Quartet in G major Op. 16

John Adams

Absolute Jest, for Solo String Quartet and Symphony Orchestra

Anton Arensky

Quartet with 2 cellos in A minor Op. 36

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

String Quartet no. 1 in D minor

String Quartet no. 3 in E-flat major

Tomás Aragüés

Cuarteto Modal (1989)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Selection from Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080

Selection of 4-part Chorals

Samuel Barber

Adagio for Quartet (from String Quartet no.2)

Béla Bartók

String Quartet no. 1 Sz. 40

String Quartet no. 2 Sz. 67

String Quartet no. 3 Sz. 85

Selection of Duos for two violins

Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet no. 1 in F major Op. 18

String Quartet no. 3 in D major Op. 18

String Quartet no. 1 in F major Op. 59

String Quartet in E-flat major Op. 74

String Quartet in F major Op. 135

Piano Quartet in E-flat major Op. 16

Alban Berg

String Quartet Op. 3 (1910)

Luigi Boccherini

Quintet with two cellos no. 4 in C major Op. 10 G. 268

Quintet with two cellos no. 6 in C major Op. 30 G. 324 “La Musica Notturna dell strade di Madrid”

Quintet with guitar, in D major G. 448 “Fandango”

Johannes Brahms

String Quartet no. 1 in C minor Op. 51

String Quartet no. 2 in A minor Op. 51

String Sextet in B-flat major Op. 18

String Sextet in G major Op. 36

Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

Gaetano Brunetti

String Quartet no. 1

String Quartet no. 2 “Dramático”

Castro Peña

Prólogos for String Quartet (world première, 2003)

George Crumb

Black Angels, for Electric String Quartet

Josquin Desprez

Motet in 4 voices In Festo Navitatis Christi “In Principio Erat Verbum”

Antonín Dvořák

String Sextet in A major Op. 48

Piano Quintet in A major Op. 81

Francisco Escudero

Cuarteto en Sol (1945)

Pedro Flores

Sueño de una Realidad (world premiére, 2011)

Roberto Gerhard

 

String Quartet no. 1 (1950-55)

String Quartet no. 2 (1960-61)

 

Alberto Ginastera

String Quartet no. 1

Philip Glass
  • String Quartet no. 3, Mishima
Enrique Granados
  • Piano Quintet in G minor
Jesús Guridi

String Quartet no. 2 in A minor

Cristóbal Halffter

String Quartet no. 9 “In memoriam Miguel de Cervantes”, (2016, world premiére)

Ocho Tientos, para cuarteto de cuerda

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in A major P121

String Quartet no. 1 in E-flat major Op. 20

String Quartet no. 2 in C major Op. 20

String Quartet no. 3 in g minor Op. 20

String Quartet no. 4 in D major Op. 20

String Quartet no. 5 in f minor Op. 20

String Quartet no. 6 in A major Op. 20

String Quartet no. 2 in E-flat major Op. 33

String Quartet no. 3 in C major Op.33

String Quartet no. 6 in D major Op. 33

String Quartet no. 1 in B-flat major Op. 50

String Quartet no. 3 in G minor Op. 74

String Quartet no. 1 in G major Op. 76

Philippe Hersant

In Fremdem Land, with Piano and Clarinet

Paul Hindemith

Melancholie, for String Quartet and Voice, Op. 13

String Quartet no. 2, “…der Geist ruft…” (world première, 2009)

György Kurtág

String Quartet no. 1

12 Microludes for String Quartet, Op. 13, hommage a Mihály András

Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, for String Quartet, Op. 28

Hommage a Jacob Obrecht

Aus der Ferne III

Aus der Ferne V

6 Moments Musicaux for String Quartet (2005)

Arioso, hommage a Walter Levin

Secreta, funeral music in memoriam László Dobszay

Clov’s Last Monologue -a fragment – (Spanish première, second world performance)

Felix Mendelssohn

String Quartet in E-flat major Op. 12

Andante – Scherzo, for String Quartet

Octet for strings in E-flat major Op. 20

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Divertimento KV 138 in F major

String Quartet KV 171 in E-flat major

String Quartet KV 387 in G major

String Quartet KV 421 in D minor

String Quartet KV 428 (421b) in E-flat major

String Quartet KV 458 in B-flat major

String Quartet KV 464 in A major

String Quartet KV 465 in C major

String Quartet KV 499 in D major “Hoffmeister”

String Quartet KV 590 in F major

Quartet with flute KV 285 in D major

Quartet with oboe KV 370 in F major

Quintet with two violas, KV 515 in C major

Quintet with two violas, KV 516 in g minor

Quintet with two violas, KV 593 in D major

Quintet with clarinet, KV 581 in A major

Requiem, KV 626 in arrangement for String Quartet by P. Lichtenthal/Cuarteto Quiroga

Édouard Lalo

String Quartet in E-flat major Op. 45

Julián Orbón

Concerto Grosso for Solo String Quartet and Symphony Orchestra

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Ricercare a 4

Arvo Pärt

Fratres, for String Quartet (1989)

Maurice Ravel

String Quartet

Steve Reich

WTC 9/11, for String Quartet and tape

Ottorino Respighi

Il tramonto, for String Quartet and Voice

Jesusa Rodríguez

Primero Sueño, Incidental Music for String Quartet, Percussion, Piano and Voice

Arnold Schönberg

String Quartet in D-major (1897)

String Quartet no. 1 Op. 7

Franz Schubert

String Quartet D. 87, in E-flat major

String Quartet movement, D. 703 in c minor “Quartettsatz”

String Quartet D. 804 in a minor “Rosamunde”

String Quartet, D. 810, in d minor “Der Tod und das Mädchen”

Quintet with two cellos D. 956 in C major

Robert Schumann

String Quartet no. 3 in A major Op. 41

Piano Quintet in E-flat major Op. 44

Dmitri Shostakóvich

String Quartet no. 15 in E-flat minor Op. 144

Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57

Tomasz Skweres

String Quartet (2007)

Josep Soler

Piano Quintet no. 2 (world première, 2010)

Giovanni Sollima

Sonnets et Rondeaux (2008)

Richard Strauss

String Sextet, from the Opera Capriccio

Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Souvenir de Florence, for String Sextet

Eduard Toldrá

Vistes al mar, for String Quartet

Joaquín Turina

La Oración del Torero, for String Quartet

Piano Quintet, Op. 1 in G minor

Calíope (Las Musas de Andalucía), for Piano Quintet

Jesús Villa-Rojo

String Quartet no. 2 (2007)

String Quartet no. 3 (world première, 2013)

Bernat Vivancos

Sis Cançóns Mallorquines

Anton Webern

Langsamer Satz (1905)

Rondo (1906)

Fünf Sätze, Op. 5

Sechs Bagatelles, Op. 9

Hugo Wolf

Italian Serenade, for String Quartet, in G majo

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The Strad Magazine

”A beautiful tone combined with an unblemished technique."

Der Münchner Merkur

"What the Cuarteto Quiroga offered us was an absolute experience of world-class rank. What these musicians gave us with eloquent colours and passionate sound was fascination and splendor. On the top of that, we should add sharpness and a sophisticated, vehement technique with a breathtaking intonation, which opened for the audience new dimensions of the works performed. The four outstanding players were coming together in such an elastic and elegant way that the concert became a sheer pleasure. In a few words: this was the best concert of the genre one has heard in this region in a long time."

Tidningen Kulturen

“In Quiroga’s masterful readings, music reaches the boiling point.”

The New York Times

“Exquisite: precise, perfectly balanced, interpretively fresh performances, couched in consistently warm hues.”

Mundo Clasico

“Their interpretation was impeccable [Bartók 3rd quartet]. With this work Cuarteto Quiroga has proved to have joined the first tier of string quartets.”

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