This is a coruscating performance from their first icy creeping entrance…I particularly love their evocation of the trio’s idyll as something infinitely distant, untouchable.

The Tetzlaff are profoundly satisfying…with that fastidious care for balance and creative variety of piano and pianissimo playing that are hallmarks of the whole disc

In the finale the players are more interventionist that in the earlier movements, elucidating phrase shapes within the scurrying triplets with touches of rubato or the occasional hiatus. It all amounts to a glistening and powerful performance. The players make much of the curiosities in Haydn’s G minor Quartet, its sudden contrasts, hesitations, asymmetries and abrupt changes of direction… the result is certainly vivid and constantly interesting.

I’ve not heard such a compelling version of this prophetic masterpiece [Schubert] since the Juilliards’ ‘Epic’ LP from the 1960s – and the Haydn G major Quartet is granted a similarly perceptive reading, the wonderful Poco adagio third movement especially. Excellent sound clinches a deal that simply cannot be missed