Quatuor Diotima
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For all three quartets, a macrocosm of underworldly music finds both refinement and yet abandon in this standout recording. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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a set of sometimes breathtaking technical accomplishment, abundant thrills and good intentions. —
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Atmospherically recorded in the Mittlerer-Saal of the Brucknerhaus, Linz, these performances are largely self-recommending. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Sam Hayden: Substratum
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Quatuor Diotima, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Asbury, David Robertson
While Hayden’s aesthetic often generates highly animated, complex and concentrated structures, subdued moments also filter through in the string quartet, recalling earlier, more spectral-inspired... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Special offer. Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Quatuor Diotima
The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Sensational readings of two of the fifteen string quartets written by Conrado del Campo, a key composer in twentieth-century Spanish music, unjustly neglected since his death in 1953. This important... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Premiere
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Any composer would be glad to have the Quatuor Diotima on their side: the fearless quality of Yun-Peng Zhao’s first violin is answered in full by a trio of lively musical personalities, placing... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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The Diotimas spent considerable time with Boulez to understand his thinking, and it shows: the sparse passages in the opening movements breathe unencumbered, the shivering development is scattered... —
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Saunders explores the sculptural properties of sound, focusing on contrasting and complementary timbre rather than traditional harmony...Juliet Fraser is the spiralling soloist in Skin; swaggering... —
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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