Browse: Stanford (composer), Quartets

These beautifully crafted and attractive string quartets, clearly indebted to Brahms and Mendelssohn, receive highly committed performances. The Fantasy for Horn and String Quartet, one of Stanford’s... — BBC Music Magazine More…

The relative smallness of piano trio repertory is partly due to the medium's balance difficulties...Such is Stanford's skill in the Piano Trio No. 2 that the problem seems not to exist: its three... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Dante Quartet’s performances are superbly stylish and accurate; the First Quartet is led by second violinist Oscar Perks, who delivers every bit as impressively as leader Krysia Osostowicz... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It's hard to draw a deeper connection between an apparently un-Teutonic composer who came up with this winsome Irish material, and the one who could absorb himself so fully, and to such a finished... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here is Stanford’s idiom at its most likeable, and least prolix…the Dante’s performances offer verve and precision, with immaculate recorded sound to match — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are distinctive, fully achieved works by a composer with a profoundly serious artistic purpose. They’re each worth hearing, and the Dante Quartet go at them with red-blooded gusto and an... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…