In the October issue of Gramophone Vol. I of our new Grieg Edition wins the Editor’s Choice!

On August 18 and 19 the Mandelring Quartet performed the complete cycle of the fifteen string quartets of Shostakovich at the Salzburg Festival. Audience and critics raved about the concerts alike.

The production Schumann: Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet with the Mandelring Quartet and Claire-Marie Le Guay received an Excellentia Award from pizzicato!

Also, our production Kirsten Flagstad was awarded a Supersonic.

Our production “Janáček: Complete String Quartets“ with the Mandelring Quartett and Gunter Teuffel won the quarterly award of the German Record Critics’ Award (“Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”).

The Backhaus live recording with Beethoven Sonatas from 1969 receives a CHOC from Classica in the October issue. Already in the July issue the four part Fischer-Dieskau Birthday Edition received a CHOC, too.

For the latest recording of the Mandelring Quartet with Leoš Janáček’s String Quartets, Gunter Teuffel and the Mandelring Quartet have reconstructed the original version, offering the second string quartet in both versions, for viola and viola d’amore. Watch a video with excerpts from the new recording, Interviews and impressions of the recording session.

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