Elias String Quartet
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Newcomer of the Year
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The Elias Quartet, whose penetration of Beethoven’s works is second to none, take Schumann’s anxiety fully into account, without in any way trying to make these later works comparable. A pity... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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highly assured performances of these two marvellous chamber works...this warmly recorded performance is most compelling when Schumann explores the extrovert side of his musical personality...While... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Volume 4
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 1 November 2014
Elias String Quartet
This review could be very brief: buy these two discs! [The Elias Quartet] are simply astounding, in the freshness, intensity, assurance and seeming spontaneity of their playing…[Bitlloch] cultivates... — More…
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Record Review, 30th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Huw Watkins: In My Craft or Sullen Art
Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Alina Ibragimova (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor)
The Nash Ensemble, Elias Quartet, Ian Brown
What strikes you most about Huw Watkins's music is its natural ease. Lyricism flourishes, and tonal echoes are exposed alongside chromatic scrunches and abrasive textures. — More…
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Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Volume 6
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 7 March 2015
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This sixth and final volume of the Elias String Quartet’s admirable Beethoven cycle comfortably matches the exulted qualities of earlier releases…There is painstaking attention to detail, yet... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, Chamber Choice
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I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is about the Elias Quartet’s interpretative style that’s so powerfully affecting, and I think I’ve distilled the answer to a single quality: fearlessness…All... — More…
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