Haydn - String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major 'The Lark'

This is domestic music, after all, and perhaps a certain amount of understatement actually enhances the boldness of Haydn’s invention. Hyperion’s recorded sound captures that small-room acoustic... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

These are performances that take you inside the music, so that it’s almost possible to hear them with a performer’s ear and experience the delight as the notes leap off the page and into life... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the players could perhaps have made more of the music's drama. In all other respects, however, this is a fine performance, with an exhilarating account of the scurrying moto perpetuo finale...the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

they epitomised the chamber ideal of music making among friends. As such, a palpable sense of enjoyment shines through, even if their straightforward stylistic approach both to the Haydn and... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…