Browse: Klenke Quartet (string quartet)

the Adagio at the start of the Finale, one of Mozart’s finest inspirations, is very sensitively done; and the players move pleasingly into the ‘boys and girls come out to play’ Allegro. — classicalsource.com, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A welcome disc of works by the German Romantic composer. The performances are robust; the symphony a discovery. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…the performances of these two wonderfully expressive works realise their drama, dialogue and repartee in the most natural way. I enjoyed especially the high spirits and wit of K387's fugal... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

The all-female, Weimar-trained Klenke Quartett, an unusually homogeneous ensemble, play [the quartets] with delicacy and brio, though a slightly broader tempo for K499’s adagio might have made... — Sunday Times, 11th May 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Klenkes arrest one's attention immediately; the opening chordal motif is relentlessly sustained with little or no vibrato; against this the impassioned, vibrant violin phrases stand out dramatically. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 More…