This DVD explores the interaction between the Kreutzer Quartet members whilst performing these four key 20th Century works for String Quartet. The quartet firmly believes that music should be seen as well as heard. The mechanics of playing and the communication of the players are what create the art.

The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe’s most dynamic and innovative string quartets. The ‘Independent’ newspaper summed up their playing as 'Passion, Grace and Steel…'.

They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. They have a particularly strong relationship to a cross-section of leading American composers, having collaborated intensively with the great George Rochberg in the last few years of his life, as long as working closely with such figures as Elliott Schwartz and the prolific symphonist Gloria Coates.

As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier and Chandos labels. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives. They are ‘Artists in association’ at York University.

Kreutzer Quartet:
- Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin)
- Mihailo Trandafilovski (violin)
- Morgan Goff (viola)
- Neil Heyde (cello)