Quatuor Hermès

Ravel - Dutilleux - Debu

The Quatuor Hermès needs no introduction. They have become the most brilliant of the young generation of French quartets thanks to a solid, faultless and no-nonsense career. After a Schumann recording praised by the press and the public, the four musicians offer us here a programme that they have had in their heads and fingers for a very long time, but... the quartets of Ravel, Debussy and Dutilleux are not recorded lightly or for a love affair to which all quartets irrepressibly succumb. "By chance, this recording happens to be our 10th anniversary! But as nothing is ever only the result of chance, it is also the privilege of time, of these years shared together and therefore of the wisdom that was finally the trigger, like a love that takes time". From this link between "the Hermes" and these masterful works is born this exceptionally mature recording, where emotion, poetry and almost unreal fusion seize you from the first measures of Ravel, and do not let you go until the last chord of the Debussy quartet. This very particular art of the Hermes to immediately take your hand and not let it go is the result of a subtle work where fluidity, choice of timbres, colours, atmospheres tell you stories with commitment and freshness. A sort of natural elegance, a balance between spontaneity and deep respect for the great masters, for music quite simply.