Ravel - String Quartet [Quatuor Ysaye]Six of the eight entries for Ravel in my Blog are for his String Quartet, it's certainly popular with me, this was another disc that i played last year by the Quatour Ysaye [11th July 2010], and it's good to revisit it again, incidentally it's only recently i worked out how to pronounce 'Ysaye', i used to say WHY-SAY, really it's EE-SA-EE.
Quatuor Ysaye are a French formed String Quartet, founded in 1984 in Paris, since this recording two new members have been cycled in, they recorded these Quartets in 1990, the front cover booklet is great [photo by Gerard Rondeau], a nicely posed portrait session, rich browns and cream, it works very well, quite uncluttered, and the lettering is great too.
Here's The Hagen String Quartet playing the second movement on YouTube.
