Browse: Chamber, Quartets, Schnittke (composer)

A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven’s introspection feels more unsettling than usual. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2019 More…

That any group could play this music better than the Montreal-based Quatuor Molinari is inconceivable. They take a line, have an angle. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

The Molinaris avoid the Kronos's tendency to overdramatise the material, and their account of the Fourth's persistently fragmenting structure also lets the material do the work. Schnittke embeds... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…

[Alakiozidou] captures perfectly [the Quintet’s] feeling of vulnerability with her beautifully veiled control of timbre and intelligent manipulation of silence…[in the Piano Quartet after Mahler]... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the sustained quality of music-making on display here ensures that the collective result is something much more than a high-powered musical love-in...her approach [to the Chopin] is as fresh... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

mesmerisingly bizarre...the sound and performances are thoroughly excellent. Not perhaps the first place to start with Schnittke, but certainly to be considered if you think you've already got... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Shostakovich's last three Quartet can seem bleak and uncomprising, yet the Pacifica Quartet manages to extract a much wider range of colours from this music than do many other interpreters. Their... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…