Browse: Weinberg (composer), Quartets

The Arcadia Quartet make a very auspicious impression for their first Weinberg entrée that brings together three of the composer’s most accessible contributions to the genre, all recorded in... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

Those who have been following this cycle need not hesitate; anyone new to this music could hardly do better than begin here. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2023 More…

the performances of all the Silesians’ releases that I have heard are uniformly excellent and musically insightful, as is also the case with this latest release. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

the Pacificas demonstrate strong empathy with the contrasting emotional narratives of each work and probe well beneath the surface simplicity of some of the writing...The Pacifica Quartet brilliantly... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 5 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…

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…

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…

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…

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Sixth Quartet has to wait over 60 years before receiving what is believed to have been its world premiere performance by the Quatuor Danel in January 2007. …on the evidence... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…