Edward Dusinberre

How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of the Takács Quartet, explores changing ideas of home, exile and return in the lives and particular chamber works of four composers: Antonin Dvorák, Edward Elgar, Bela Bartók, and Benjamin Britten. A resident of Boulder, Colorado for...

"They are not for you but for a later age!" Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. They have inspired artists of all kinds—not only musicians—and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. What does it feel like to be a musician taking...