Browse: Haydn - String Quartet, Op. 51 'Seven Last Words'

There’s a wonderful immediacy about the London Haydn Quartet’s playing here, complemented by superb recorded sound. The ensemble’s period instruments, gut strings and considered stylistic approach... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Includes an impassioned account of Haydn’s Seven Last Words (each movement sounding quite unlike its immediate neighbour, which isn’t always the case...Transfer engineers Ward Marston and Mark... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

Using Classical bows, the variety of nuance and colour these players derive from gradations of vibrato and bow pressure alone constitutes a masterclass in quartet playing. Yet it is the sheer... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Kodaly Quartet give an outstanding performance, strongly characterized and beautifully played, with subtle contrasts of expressive tension between the seven inner slow movements. ...The recording... — Gramophone Magazine More…

the playing of Henschel Quartet - fierce and wiry in the more rhetorical passages; gently expressive in the more reflective moments - sounds quite fine enough to have stood on its own. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 2 out of 5 stars More…