Pacifica Quartet
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The Pacifica Quartet have more chance to show their mettle in the less extravagant Second String Quartet…both pieces are excellent examples of how far a composer can go on intuition, energy... —
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In No 1 (1951), the Pacifica find a near-perfect balance between the driving intensity of the Arditti and portentous grandeur of the Juilliard. In No 5 (1995) they, like the Arditti make the... —
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Chamber Music Recording
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This phenomenally interesting music is performed to the very highest standards and recorded in fine sound. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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the Pacificas demonstrate strong empathy with the contrasting emotional narratives of each work and probe well beneath the surface simplicity of some of the writing...The Pacifica Quartet brilliantly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, Disc of the month
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Affectionately and adroitly played, theirs is a very impressive performance [of Dvořák's 'American' Quartet] indeed, with buoyantly-sprung rhythms underscoring the folkish elements of this much... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Chamber Choice
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Shostakovich's last three Quartet can seem bleak and uncomprising, yet the Pacifica Quartet manages to extract a much wider range of colours from this music than do many other interpreters.... —
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When musicians of the stature of multiple-Grammy winner Sharon Isbin and the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet collaborate, it’s a safe assumption that mastery of such technical niceties as intonation,... —
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The 1959 Second Quartet is a wonderfully compact introduction to the music of Carter's middle period and the Pacifica map its temperamental twists and turns precisely, just as they cope with... —
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The Soviet Experience Volume I
String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries
Pacifica Quartet
their sense of the musical argument is always impressive, shining through their objective but never over-slick approach. The Pacifica Quartet only seem to draw breath, like Shostakovich, between... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, Chamber Choice
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easily the most satisfying piece is James Lee III’s eloquent Quintet, which muses on Native American traditions and experience with imagination, wit and grace, and gives plenty of chances for... —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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