Beethoven's String Quartet No. 3 in D major Op. 18 No. 3 performed in 2019 (December, 18) and 2014 (December).
Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat Op. 18 No. 6 performed in 2019 (December, 20) and 2015 (December).
Mozart's String Quartet in B flat K589 (Prussian) performed in 2018 (November) and 2014.
Schubert's String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ performed in 2021 (September) and 2016 (December).
Schubert's String Quintet in C major D956 performed in 2022 (twice in September at the Wigmore Hall with Jean-Guihen Queyras) and 2015 (October, 11 with Valentin Erben).
Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 performed in 2022 (November) and 2018 (June).
Webern's Fünf Sätze Op. 5 performed in 2015 (October) and 2015 (March).
The Belcea quartet consists of: Corina Belcea and Axel Schacher on violins, Krzysztof Chorzelski on viola and Antoine Lederlin on cello.
Corina Belcea launched the quartet in 1994 while the members were students at the Royal College of Music in London and coached by the famous Chilingirian Quartet.
Corina Belcea plays a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin dating from 1755 and loaned from the MERITO String Instruments Trusts Vienna.
On the 3rd of December 2021 with Piotr Anderszewski at the Wigmore Hall.
On the 17th of January 2022 at the Wigmore Hall
On the 16th of January 2022 with Quatuor Ebène at the Wigmore Hall
On the 7th of June 2020 at the Wigmore Hall.
On the 5th of June 2020 at the Wigmore Hall.
The quartet played in St John's Downshire Hill, Hampstead on the 13th of November 2017.
Ashley: Where the [Penderecki] Second Quartet’s ferocity derives precisely from its compression, the Fourth feels perfunctory, more a sketch or a vignette than a fully developed score.
Krzysztof Chorzelski played Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major D667 (Trout) with the Leonore Piano Trio on the 9th of January 2016 at the Wigmore Hall.
In 2006 Axel Schacher was awarded the Concertmaster chair of the Basel Symphony Orchestra, a position he still holds. In the same year Alasdair Tait left the quartet.
In 2001 The Quartet won the Gramophone Award for best debut recording.
Krzysztof Chorzelski, who joined the quartet in 1996, became the viola player in the Belcea Quartet In 2006 he was invited by the Alban Berg Quartet. He was born in Warsaw in 1971 and won the Wronski Solo Violin Competition in 1992.
He plays a Nicola Amati's viola from aproxiamtely 1670.
The quartet performed Mark-Anthony Turnage's Contusion on the 6th of December 2014 at the Wigmore Hall. See Jonathan Biss for more details.
Corina Belcea was born in Romania in 1975. In 1991 she began to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London.
Axel Schacher was born in 1981 and started studying at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris in 1994.
Antoine Lederlin was born in France in 1975, and studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris.
The quartet made their BBC Chamber Proms debut on the 31st of July 2000 at the Victoria & Albert Museum playing Haydn's String Quartet in D major, Hob. III:79, Op 76.5 and String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op 73 by Shostakovich.