Browse: Chamber, Sextets, Tchaikovsky (composer)

perhaps the group’s elegant name and its long reputation for finesse led me to expect a particular kind of interpretation. Wrongly, as it happens: the boldness, ferocity and raw red-blooded vigour... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

So many inspired melodies, ravishingly harmonised, on a single disc...The inwardness of the ‘Elegie’ and the crescendos from pp to ff are superbly done..Azkoul’s penchant for rare transcriptions... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

A rarity of great charm and sincerity … a fine disc in excellent sound — Classic CD More…

There's irresistible joie de vivre in this performance of Souvenir de Florence. The Endellion is clearly fired up by the two extra string partners, and the ensemble conveys the kind of spontaneous... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2005 More…

The Borodin Quartet has an instinctive understanding for Tchaikovsky, playing with heart-rending intensity in the slow movements of the Second and Third Quartets while mustering the necessary... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

this new set can be recommended unhesitatingly as a modern complete recording of the quartets and the Sextet. — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…