Browse: Webern (composer), String Quartets

On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2019 More…

All the pieces on this final instalment of the ‘Prism’ series stand on a threshold, and in this Op 135 Beethoven does so with the vitality and humour of the Diabelli Variations. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023 More…

their new account under Heinz Holliger unfolds at relatively steady tempos, with more compositional logic than late Romantic passion...[Holliger's] deployment of a relatively small string line-up... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 3 out of 5 stars 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…

Symmetry, the cyclic evolution of a musical germ and the idea of birth in the midst of death: all are fundamental to this disc. Webern's motivically determined orchestration of the Ricercar from... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The Novus players show in the Beethoven that they are a formidable unit, forthright and coherent, if perhaps just a little too relentless at times...their most engaging playing comes in the work... — The Guardian, 11th August 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This is an attractive programme, superbly performed and recorded with an ideal balance between detail and atmosphere in 5.0 surround sound. From solos to the weightiest of tuttis this is a band... — MusicWeb International, 2nd December 2014 More…