Cuarteto Casals

With combined experience of more than 27 years, Cuarteto Casals, founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, has built a substantial discography with the Harmonia Mundi label, with a repertoire ranging from lesser-known Spanish composers such as Arriaga and Toldrá to the Viennese classics Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, and to twentieth-century masters such as Debussy, Ravel, Zemlinsky, Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág. Additionally, a live Blu-ray recording of the complete Schubert quartets was released on Neu Records.

A prize from the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London enabled the quartet to assemble a collection of appropriate bows from the Baroque and Classical periods, which it uses for works from Purcell through to Schubert and with which it has further refined its distinction across different musical styles. The quartet was furthermore strongly influenced by its collaboration with living composers, in particular György Kurtág, and has premiered works by leading Spanish composers, including a concert for string quartet and orchestra by Francisco Coll with the Orquesta Nacional de España, and commissions from Mauricio Sotelo, Benet Casablancas, Dahoud Salim etc.

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