Our brand-new CD of Luciano Berio’s complete string quartets is hot off the press! It has been available since Friday March 14 in stores and on all online listening platforms. Follow this link for online listening or purchase. We’re very proud of this disc, which is the first complete set of quartets by Luciano Berio, the famous Arditti Quartet having never recorded Study, Berio’s first quartet. The 5 quartets follow the composer’s unique career path, with an early work for quartet entitled Study, written in 1952 and of a rather classical style. This was followed a few years later by Quartetto per archi, a work that belongs to post-Webernian music and generalized serialism. In 1964, Berio delivered Sincronie, a work in which gesture guides the music. The four instruments sometimes play synchronously, sometimes as if the music were random. Thirty years separate Sincronie from Notturno, Berio’s undisputed masterpiece. Murmurs, echoes, explosions of sound, this work is profoundly expressive and represents a pinnacle of 20th-century quartet writing. Berio concluded his quartet career with Glosse in 1997, a work written for the Borciani String Quartet Competition. Berio describes the work as “short comments on a virtual quartet or, more precisely, on a quartet that doesn’t exist – a rather complex and mysterious affair”.

The 5th episode of our podcast «Le studio du Quatuor Molinari» is online! Jean Portugais talks to composer Walter Boudreau about his string quartet “Le Grand Méridien” (2002). A fascinating exchange allows us to appreciate the richness of the writing in this work, illustrated by several musical examples taken from the Quatuor Molinari’s Vidéothèque québécoise (vqqm.ca). An hour of confidences, memories, complicity and even humor. This interview was recorded on March 19, 2025. Follow the links below to listen to the episode on your favourite channel. Subscribe to our podcast so you don’t miss a thing! Apple Podcasts Acast Spotify Amazon Music Youtube Balado Québec See all the informations on Walter Boudreau and «Le Grand Méridien» on the website of the Vidéothèque québécoise Quatuor Molinari.

The Molinari’s take the air with their new podcast, The Molinari Quartet’s Studio. Follow all of the Quartet’s activities through this new podcast. You’ll hear interviews with the musicians of the Quartet and with composers, discussions and information on our concerts and on the repertoire for string quartet. You will know everything about our achievements and projects! Hosted by Jean Portugais with the participation of artistic director and first violinist of the Quartet Olga Ranzenhofer, this podcast is a place for discussion and in-depth look on the works performed by the Molinari’s. To give you a foretaste of our upcoming concerts, you will hear excerpts of the works to be performed. You’re invited in our practice studio!   The frequency of the podcasts will depend on our activities and will be of various length. The podcast is available on all the major podcast websites such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Youtube, Acast, etc. First episode : Introduction to the podcast and discussion on the Molinari Quartet’s 9th International Composition Competition.

The latest CD of the Molinari Quartet has just been released under the ATMA Classique label. The double CD comprises the complete string quartets and the String Trio by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988).