Throughout the slow movement, the playing of the solo lines is captivating…The Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg provide both relaxation and a strong sense of purposeful energy…Excellently recorded, these performances are among the most memorable I have encountered in recent years.

It is the happiest of reunions and their sense of shared purpose is evident from the very start...Giltburg is likewise completely at one with the quartet, who set off full of sighing pathos...From the off, they make the music their own...the sense of story-telling is very persuasive...Another triumphant addition to the Pavel Haas’s already Award-laden discography.

Something that always takes my breath away with this quartet is the range and breadth of dynamics and tone colours that they produce, as well as the perfect blend of sound that they make whilst still allowing individual members’ contributions to come to the fore when required...[Giltburg] genuinely feels like an organic part of the group, never dominating unnecessarily, and yet coming to the fore when appropriate.

the Czech disc proposes the Russian-born Giltburg, a virtuoso “soloist” in the Piano Quintet, like Sviatoslav Richter before him. He clearly feels this dancing, soulful music as personally as his Czech colleagues in an exhilarating performance...This life-enhancing music is a tonic.

The playing is breathtakingly good, each performer maintaining their own personality and yet working together to conjure a special magic, whether in the sparkling “furiant” of the piano quintet No 2 in A major, Op 81 (with Boris Giltburg at his most mercurial), or the dreamy, song-like opening movement of the string quintet in E flat major.

This is joyous, generous music making.