Casal Quartet

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Casal Quartet
General information
Genre (s) String quartet
founding 1996
Current occupation
Felix frog hammer
violin
 Rachel Späth
Markus Fleck
Andreas Fleck

The Casal Quartet ( spelling casalQuartett ) is a classical string quartet from Switzerland founded in 1996 by students of the Carmina and Alban Berg Quartet .

repertoire

The quartet performs classical music from the 17th century to the present day, including a. Music by Astor Piazzolla or Antônio Carlos Jobim are part of the repertoire. Since 2008 the Casal Quartet has also been playing regularly on historical instruments by Jakob Stainer from the 17th century. On these instruments, the Casal Quartet primarily devotes itself to the development of the string quartet genre in the 18th century. Since then the Casal Quartet has given many concerts all over the world and has worked with musicians such as Martha Argerich , Fazil Say , Sol Gabetta , Giora Feidman , Clemens Hagen and Nikolaj Znaider .

Former members

  • Dominik Fischer, viola (until 2005)
  • Daria Zappa, violin (2005 to 2012)
  • Corinne Chapelle, violin (2012 to 2013)

Discography

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