BELLE Époque

The Galatea Quartet performs works for string quartet by Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, and Pierre Menu.

“The Galatea Quartet's command of their instruments gives the performances extra distinction: though not a group to indulge in a lot of colour, they give Debussy just enough intellectual rigour...and do so in ways that reveal even greater depths in the music.” --Gramophone Magazine, August 2014

PARIS

This disc was Gramophone's "Recording of the Month" for March 1998.

Brilliant, charming & versatile: When Emmanuel Pahud became the youngest member of the Berlin Philharmonic at the age of just 22, he was at the beginning of an unprecedented career. His technical brilliance and the exceptional musical versatility with which Pahud adapts "to the colours of the music or teh composer's ideas like a chameleon" have made the charismatic musician one of the most successful flautists of our time.