Quatuor Danel

Meaty playing that brings out the angst in these knotty, chromatic works. The Quartet’s Larghetto has an expansive feel while the Quintet’s finale has a devilish abandon. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances certainly feel freshly imagined...There is every so often a wiriness here that will not be to all tastes. A challenging listen, then, but one bringing abundant rewards. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

Having previously recorded a highly praised Shostakovich cycle, it's hardly surprising that the Quatuor Danel demonstrate such an instinctive understanding of Weinberg's idiom. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the Danel Quartet deliver strongly committed performances employing a hugely varied and imaginative tonal palette that always serves the music to its best advantage. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Quatuor Danel is particularly eloquent [in the Tenth], delivering powerfully impassioned playing in the opening declamatory movement and the short third-movement Adagio while projecting a... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

in the first movement [of the Ninth] Weinberg eschews lyricism and projects an almost relentless density of sound...[the 14th] is dominated by long impassioned monologues for solo instruments... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With a wonderfully clear recording and superbly committed playing from the Quatuor Danel, extracting the maximum amount of colour and variety of gesture from the music, this release deserves... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Saygun clearly viewed the form from an anti-Romantic perspective with potentially 'colourful' native elements transmuted into a sophisticated, dissonant, increasingly abstract idiom. The composer... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006 More…