Foyle-Štšura Duo wishes all friends and followers a Happy New Year! We are humbled that the third and final volume of our Beethoven cycle, released in November on Challenge Classics, has received this wonderful five-star review in the January issue of the BBC Music Magazine. Julian Haylock praises the “remarkably detailed” responses, “chamber-scale intimacy”, and […]
Foyle-Štšura Duo is delighted to let you know that the last installment of our Beethoven project was released today, on Friday 11 November 2022 by Challenge Records International. This CD marks the end of an extraordinary journey that started in July 2020 in the middle of a worldwide lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. We were […]
Foyle-Stsura Duo are excited to announce the release of the first instalment from the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Piano and Violin Sonatas, recorded in July 2020 for the Challenge Classics label. This was a special project, recorded in the middle of the international lockdown in Mechelen, Belgium, the home of Beethoven’s ancestors. Beethoven’s ‘struggle to […]
Dear friends and supporters, Foyle-Štšura Duo hopes hopes that you are well and safe during these months of great sadness and uncertainty while the Covid-19 pandemic shakes our society. Of course, most of our live performances have been cancelled or postponed, but we are working on some large-scale projects so stay tuned for more news. […]
Malcolm Hayes reviewed the The Great War Centenary (Challenge Classics, released 11 November 2018) in the February 2019 issue of the BBC Music Magazine: ‘Foyle’s playing is remarkable in its accuracy, tonal focus and impressive range of musical options: the violin’s opening phrase in Debussy’s Sonata sound unusually clipped at first hearing, but that’s how […]
On 11 November 2018, to mark the Centenary Anniversary of the Armistice Day, Foyle-Štšura Duo release their album ‘The Great War Centenary’ for Challenge Records, featuring wartime sonatas by Debussy, Janáček and Respighi and a new commission by Kenneth Hesketh. The special launch concert at Tindalvilla Bussum in Holland will be followed by events in […]
Foyle-Štšura Duo are excited to have recorded their debut CDs which are being released during the 2018-19 season. The Great War Centenary recital for Challenge Records features sonatas by Debussy, Janáček, Respighi and ‘Inscrizione (derivata) (A lie to the Dying)’ by Kenneth Hesketh, specially commissioned for this project and generously sponsored by Peter and Veronica […]
We have just returned from Mexico, a tour that was drenched in sun, colour, warmth, laughter, generous people, wonderful food and, of course, our favourite music. The tour, so wonderfully coordinated by CMF and Anglo Arts, centred around the magnificent Cervantino Festival, the largest arts festival in Latin America which this year took place in the […]
Between 10 and 22 October 2017 we embark upon our very first Mexico tour with recitals for Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico City, León, Metepec and Irapuato. Our programme ‘Revolutionary Spirit’ marks the Centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Huge thank you to AngloArts and City Music Foundation for making this exciting adventure happen!
We are privileged to have found the following review of our Wigmore Hall recital in the December 2016 issue of The Strad Magazine, huge thank you to Tim Homfray for these kind words: ‘…The Foyle-Štšura Duo [is] a fine partnership, and clearly a dedicated one, playing everything from memory. In Lutoslawski’s Partita there was punchy […]
