Cuarteto Casals
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If you like your Mozart taut and urgent, with no concessions to Mozartian ‘charm’, you should find these brilliantly executed performances as riveting as I do. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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The performances by the Cuarteto Casals, completing their Shostakovich quartet cycle, have the same humane glow and loving finesse of earlier volumes...However chilly and painful the music may... —
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Among modern performances I have heard none that surpasses this for obsessiveness. Even so, the Cuarteto Casals manage not to fall into the trap of making this an aural ordeal for the listener...but... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Disc of the month
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I stand in awe of their depth, sonority (superbly recorded) and combination of intellect with emotion. —
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The Casals Quartet should certainly be commended for their attempt to rethink the Shostakovich quartets. But their beauty of sound and attention to small-scale detail seems to prevent them from... —
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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Astonishingly insightful playing, musically captivating and technically blemishless. Each and every phrase rings so completely true that one can't imagine the music being played any other way. —
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Building a Library, January 2012, Recommended Recording
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the period players of Cuarteto Casals reveal an intimate uderstanding of the special qualities of Mozart's quartet style...virtually every phrase is brought to life and coloured by some variations... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Editor's Choice
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This is essentially youthful music, and the finely recorded debut recording by the Casals Quartet brings it across with all the freshness it needs. —
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