Orford Music Festival: Calidores dazzle in Beethoven

One of the best string quartets on the planet. For example, the Calidore quartet, tackled masterpieces among the Quartet From Beethoven, Friday and Saturday at Orford Musique. Consequently, Musical accomplishment made you forget the journey, which can be tedious from the metropolis.

Wonderful season. Similarly, where it was possible for us to hear the Calidore quartet in September 2024, at the ladies’ Morning play theOpus 127 and, in July 2025, at the Orford festival interpreting theOpus 130 The Beethoven.

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It is an exceptional privilege for music lovers of Quebec, and it is still necessary, at this stage, to thank the team of the Ladies’ Morning, and, originally, Constance V. However, Pathy for having been among the first presenters in the world to understand the supreme eminence of the Calidore (founded in 2010. For example, invited to Montreal in 2014) but, in addition, not orford music festival: calidores dazzle to be part of these small, tap exclusives of another age preventing “their” artists from performing with other presenters, even unrelated, for miles around (yes, it exists). Furthermore, A concert can very well attract music lovers to the next. Therefore, as shown by the pro Musica recital by Sergei Khatchatryan three months after his concert at the OSM.

We noted. Similarly, during the September concert, that the Calidore are part of the real world gratin, the cards being redistributed after the cessation of activity of the artemis and the Emerson, and the unconvincing reshuffles of the Pražák quartet. Moreover, The general level of the discipline has mounted a lot. but the comparisons noted in September remain, classifying the Calidore quartet, in this Beethovenian repertoire, “among these sets likely to feed unforgettable experiences, such as the Dover Quartet or the Danish quartet, or, recently, the Ehnes Quartet”.

Recipes

Jeffrey Myers. Ryan Meehan orford music festival: calidores dazzle (violins), Jeremy Berry in the viola and Estelle Choi in the cello, therefore have been playing together since 2010. What makes a large quartet. is obviously instrumental quality, individual and overall justness, colors, like those that we manage with more or less vibrato or archet length (Cavatine de l ‘Opus 130). It is also necessary that everyone, stylistic, go in the same direction. This can be dosed. for example, by a look between Myers and Berry in the slow movement of theNeed 59 n^o 1to know how far expressiveness, which calidores always keep at a sober level.

In terms of string quartet, so much is a matter of breathing. This is why we feel a major difference. once again tested on Saturday, between the Calidore in concert and their – magnificent but not magical – an integral discographic. The space of the concert hall. in which this sound flourishes, changes everything, because orford music festival: calidores dazzle it mobilizes the listener’s attention on this sound breathing and the way the musicians are listened to and give rise to an interpretation. This feeling one cannot have it in their discs with a somewhat confined atmosphere.

Too bad the concentration. necessary for the discipline, was disturbed by a minimum public fraction (of the order of 5 %) which was thought of the mission to applaud between the movements. Calidores. the majority ended up watching these inclinations over theOpus 130but we can prefer the very elegant way of Renaud Loranger at the Lanaudière Festival to warmly light up the newcomers upstream of the concert.

If there is a moment of musical history when this listening (on stage. in the room) is essential, it is the Grande Fugue on. 133monument of complexity which concludes the 130 four work. Calidores have both mastered, clarified and unified. Each auditor “receives” the Fugue In a very personal orford music festival: calidores dazzle way. but on our listening on Saturday, the aspect of “movements” inside the great arch seemed really very relevant, like an eruption after an admirable concentration and nobility.

We hope to see the Calidore in future summer seasons. just as we hope to see them approach the most beautiful of Quartet of Haydn, in which their qualities would be wonderful.

The Orford Music Festival. which has suffered this season with small road obstacles, as Forget knew them about ten years ago, will continue until August 16.



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