Sacconi Quartet

All five musicians play with requisite intensity and do a terrific job in ratcheting up the tension over long paragraphs...If you’re obsessed with the Taneyev Quintet, as I am, this beautifully... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2024 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Silver Nocturnes blurs the boundary between string quartet and quintet…Williams has the necessary strength and intensity for the music’s bleak dramaticism. The Horn Quintet (2010-11) confirms... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The players have a notable consistency of tone, perhaps partly thanks to the fact that the three higher instruments are all by the influential 20th-century Italian luthier from which the quartet... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Sacconi Quartet should certainly be applauded for their imaginative programming in this beautifully engineered release. Moreover hearing the works side by side makes it abundantly clear... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There's an innate lyrical quality to the music of Welsh composer John Metcalf, often harnessed to particular effective ends in works of a reflective, sometimes nostalgic nature...an agile and... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…

The Sacconi Quartet's performance, aided by a rich recorded sound, is ideal: quietly intense without resorting to sentimentality...There is clear relish for the American's abundant lyricism...their... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…