The Jerusalem Quartet plays the two pillars of the French string quartet repertoire
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C. Debussy, Quartet in G, Op. 10
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M. Ravel, Quartet in F
Harmonia Mundi
Catalog No.: HMM902304
A century after his death on March 25, 1918, many harmonia mundi artists are eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great ‘colorist’ and father of modern music.
The musicians of the Jerusalem Quartet offer a new reading of his only String Quartet in the logical coupling with its Ravelian counterpart: in some respects, the two works might seem like twins—and yet what differences there are between them!