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The remastered recordings… sound remarkably fresh and clear for the period in which they were made. Balancing technical brilliance with emotional intensity, the Fine Arts are particularly convincing... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Quite exceptional, this…and on many levels.
For one, the playing is superb, the biting attack of the Fifth Quartet's opening, its precision, energy and tempered rhythmic momentum, not to mention... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The Alban Berg bring all their usual sophistication and Viennese hothouse climate to works which are sometimes illuminated by them, and equally often obscured. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Here's another enlightened programme from the young German Schumann Quartet...Haydn's Sunrise is freshly radiant in their hands, the Menuett almost swung with an elastic rhythmic bounce, the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[No. 1] opens in a state of lonely desolation, and the feeling of suspense is superbly captured by the Jerusalems, who also find the earthy folksiness to remind us that Bartók’s language is rooted... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…