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Nordic String Quartet

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    2013
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    Nordic String Quartet is a critically acclaimed ensemble known for their nuanced and luminous sound. Formed in 2013, the quartet consists of Heiðrun Petersen (violin, Faroe Islands), Mads Haugsted Hansen (violin, Denmark), Daniel Eklund (viola, Sweden) and Lea Emilie Brøndal (cello, Denmark). After studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Professor Tim Frederiksen, they have established themselves as leading interpreters of Nordic string quartet repertoire.

    Their recordings of both Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s (2019 onward) and Nancy Dalberg’s complete string quartets on Dacapo Records have received international acclaim, with the first named Contemporary Album of the Year by the DR P2 Award in 2020, the latter was recognised among MusicWeb International’s Recordings of the Year in 2019.

    The Nordic String Quartet has excelled in both Nordic repertoire and cross-genre collaborations, winning several awards, including the Odd Fellow Lodges Music Prize and the gold medal at the Berliner International Music Competition.

    With the quartet’s first album of Peter Heise’s complete string quartets for Dacapo Records (2023 onward), they continue their successful rediscovery of forgotten Nordic repertoire – as the magazine The Strad wrote: ‘A neglected Dane is compellingly revived’.

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    • The Firebirds – Banke, Filipsen & Pasborg, Inga Margrete Aas, Mauro Patricelli, Veli Kujala, Nick Martin, Xavier Bonfill, Niklas Ottander

      Adaptations

      Adaptations shatters norms, unveiling improvisations where genres blend and rigid adherence to style gives way to fluidity.

    • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2

      The Nordic String Quartet arrive at the string quartet works that reveal the composer’s musical imagination in all its unbridled joy, brilliance and eccentricity.

    • Peter Heise

      String Quartets Vol. 1

      In the first instalment of their two-part series, Nordic String Quartet revives Heise's elegantly fluid string quartets with a spacious and lyrical approach, infusing a sensibility attuned to his distinctive poetic touch.

    • Nancy Dalberg

      De tre strygekvartetter

      The acclaimed Nordic String Quartet here presents the first complete recording of Dalberg's quartets – as a conversation with great statements and good arguments.

    • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Samlede strygekvartetter vol. 1

      Nordic String Quartet here presents Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's first six quartets – never fusty, often entertaining, always adamant

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