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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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Both [Op. 44 quartets] have long first movements – genial in the D major, more plangent and yearning in the E minor - and it’s a measure of the performances that they capture these moods with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Chamber Choice
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lean-toned, fiery, ever responsive to Mendelssohn’s distinctive brand of restlessness and agitation, yet never short-changing the pools of mystery and tenderness in, say, the outer movements... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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An attractive coupling vivaciously and expertly played. —
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Building a Library, October 2005, First Choice
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…the players capture beautifully the mix of grace and jokiness in the Mozart Minuet, and in the Mendelssohn they apply just enough rubato to give colour and meaning, without ever interrupting... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Newcomer of the Year
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The Consone wear their historically informed learning lightly. On gut strings with period bows, they cultivate a finegrained sonority: a surface texture a touch dry yet overtone-rich, dissonances... —
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the Talich remains a model of instinctively musical, utterly democratic quartet playing. The detail etched into each work here is startling, yet none of it is delivered with the kind of look-at-me... —
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a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Chamber Choice
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