Quatuor Diotima

How do you like your Bartók quartets served? With precision, passion, a sense of mystery or a sense of humour? With spontaneity or with a pinch of paprika?...Quatuor Diotima offer a balanced... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…

The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The playing has an airy, unemphatic brilliance that's perfect for the more showy passages, and an unusual purity of sound. Stylish use of portamento enhances any tender, expressive moments...this... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…

The Diotima Quartet claim the first recording of the new Bärenreiter edition of Janácek's IntimateLetters Quartet. And this is no small matter of the odd slur, dot and accidental. Whole phrases... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience...Marie-Nicole Lemieux's voluptuous pianissimo... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

He has a fabulous ear for unusual sonorities, which he fashions into surprisingly logical narratives...Böse Zellen, in particular, is a truly original work, vigorously performed and captured... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are very persuasive. Geneviève Laurenceau, often playing with great delicacy, creates a lovely timbre, subtly coloured, and Lorène De Ratuld is a wholly sympathetic partner.... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2007 More…

the conjunction of these three contrasting string pieces written across the 20th century proves useful, and stimulates thought. Furthermore, Hughes Deschaux's recording is terrific. It's vivid... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…