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Meaty playing that brings out the angst in these knotty, chromatic works. The Quartet’s Larghetto has an expansive feel while the Quintet’s finale has a devilish abandon. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Having previously recorded a highly praised Shostakovich cycle, it's hardly surprising that the Quatuor Danel demonstrate such an instinctive understanding of Weinberg's idiom. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 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…

in the first movement [of the Ninth] Weinberg eschews lyricism and projects an almost relentless density of sound...[the 14th] is dominated by long impassioned monologues for solo instruments... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Sixth Quartet has to wait over 60 years before receiving what is believed to have been its world premiere performance by the Quatuor Danel in January 2007. …on the evidence... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Saygun clearly viewed the form from an anti-Romantic perspective with potentially 'colourful' native elements transmuted into a sophisticated, dissonant, increasingly abstract idiom. The composer... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006 More…

With a wonderfully clear recording and superbly committed playing from the Quatuor Danel, extracting the maximum amount of colour and variety of gesture from the music, this release deserves... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Quatuor Danel is particularly eloquent [in the Tenth], delivering powerfully impassioned playing in the opening declamatory movement and the short third-movement Adagio while projecting a... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the Danel Quartet deliver strongly committed performances employing a hugely varied and imaginative tonal palette that always serves the music to its best advantage. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…