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Mary Ellen Woodside, Violine\nEdouard M\u00e4tzener, Violine
\nAlessandro D\u2019Amico, Viola
\nRafael Rosenfeld, Violoncello<\/p>\n
Mary Ellen Woodside, Violine
\nEdouard M\u00e4tzener, Violine
\nAlessandro D\u2019Amico, Viola
\nRafael Rosenfeld, Violoncello<\/p>\n
\u201eIn an age remarkably rich in string quartets of high quality, the Merel Quartet is, in my
\nopinion, one of the very best.\u201c \u00a0— Alfred Brendel
\nCommended for their stylistic awareness, maturity of expression and command of form, the
\nMerel Quartet have been captivating audiences since 2002.\u00a0 An exceptionally communicative
\nquartet, the Merels have received unanimous praise:\u00a0 \u201ea young ensemble of wonderfully
\ndevoted and tonally excedingly well-matched musicians\u201c writes the Wiener Zeitung (Vienna)
\nand the Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung (Z\u00fcrich) lauded the Merel Quartet for playing \u201e…with utmost
\nexpressivity and a subtle sense of form, tone and rhetoric\u201c.<\/p>\n
The Merel Quartet has performed extensively in Europe in venues like the Wigmore Hall,
\nBerlin Konzerthaus and Tonhalle Z\u00fcrich, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Ittingen Whitsun
\nConcerts, Lucerne Festival, Salzburger Festspiele and Kunstfest Weimar. \u00a0Known for their
\nvivid performances, the quartet has excited audiences in Italy, France,\u00a0 Germany, England,
\nPoland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.
\nThe Merel Quartet enjoys collaborations with artists like Juliane Banse, Ruth Ziesak, J\u00f6rg
\nWidmann, Denes Varjon, Diemut Poppen, Natalia Gutman, Nobuko Imai, Thomas Demenga,
\nand Alfred Brendel. The Merels perform an extensive repertoire spanning three centuries
\nfrom Bach and Purcell through to contemporary masters like Kurtag, Saariaho and Holliger.
\nThey have commissioned and premiered works by David Philip Hefti, Martin Jaggi, Helena
\nWinkelman and Roland Moser.
\nFrequent live radio performances on Swiss Radio SRF2 and Radio Suisse Romande as well
\nas German Radio SWR2 have brought the Merel Quartet added recognition.\u00a0 The quartet\u2019s
\ndebut album including works by Schumann, Janacek and award-winning Swiss composer
\nDavid Philip Hefti was praised as the \u201eoutstanding CD-Premier of a first-rate quartet\u201c (Neue
\nZ\u00fcrich Zeitung am Sonntag).
\nSince 2015, the Merel Quartet founded and are Quartet in Residence of the chamber music
\nfestival \u201eZwischent\u00f6ne\u201c in Engelberg, Switzerland. \u00a0Guest artists have included Alfred
\nBrendel, Yura Lee, Ruth Ziesak, Juliane Banse, Denes Varjon, Reto Bieri, Robert
\nHungerb\u00fchler and Marie-Claude Chappuis.
\nPerformances of works by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn on the Merel\u2019s second album also
\nreceived high acclaim.\u00a0 \u201ePermeated with a feverish intensity, with close attention to detail and
\nexquisitely balanced illumination of the voices\u201c\u00a0 and \u201etheir sound, agile and transparent, with
\na wide range of tonal colors, is irresistable\u201c writes Thomas Bopp of Das Orchester. \u00a0Cathy
\nFuller, in her show \u201eNew and Notable Releases\u201c on Boston Public Radio WGBH\u00a0 proclaimed
\n\u201eThis is a stunning recording, brimming with life and longing and sustained by an intelligent
\nsense of line.\u00a0 The quartet\u2019s devotion to bringing across each of the two quartets as complete
\nunfolding constructions makes the experience all the more poignant. \u00a0Gorgeous.\u201c<\/p>\n
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