Browse: Engegard Quartet (string quartet)

Stirring, nimble performances of two chamber masterpieces. The quartet’s playing is as cool and luminous as the moody cover suggests, achieving a fine blend with the pianist. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Furious crossrhythms and accented repeated notes relent to hymnal lyricism in Olli Mustonen’s First String Quartet...Mustonen is the composer-pianist in the 2014 Piano Quintet, which opens with... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The most interesting angle here is the varied instrumental staging and microphone placements...Listening conventionally, it's the Beethoven that makes the strongest impressions, with vivid antiphonal... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…

Mozart’s Haydn quartets from the 1780s, part of the composer’s golden period, possess invention, with and touches of tragedy which the Engegards mirror with intimate, soulful, subtle playing.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Engegårds' ensemble sound is characterful and lit from within by Carlsen and viola player Juliet Jopling. Their performances - lucidly captured by the BIS engineers - live in the moment:... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

the music’s range and richness of invention seem to be endless, yet never forced, qualities that are happily conveyed at every point by this Norwegianbased quartet. Their collective approach... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…