Chiaroscuro Quartet
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The Chiaroscuro Quartet revel in the composer's play of ideas...It was the interpretation of No. 5 that blind-sided me on a first listening...This is a deeply absorbing reading, and can make... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building a Library, February 2018, Recommended Recording
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The Chiaroscuro Quartet are particularly good at capturing the more forward-looking moments…Their use of gut strings and a historically-informed approach produces focused tone throughout; the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018
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Record Review, 17th November 2018, Disc of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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The Chiaroscuros return, armed with a perfect sound balance and rich, vibrant textures from each player. —
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Record Review, 6th February 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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whether gut strings and period bows are generally your bag or not, you need to add this to your listening pile forthwith. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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A stellar quartet breathes new life into mighty middle-period Beethoven… Alina Ibragimova leads performances that are not only innately diomatic but also notable for the integration of the... —
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the highly accomplished Chiaroscuro promote an ‘Ibragimovian’ view of Beethoven that is above all dynamic, intelligent, agile and argumentative, with much vividly attenuated phrasing added to... —
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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Ibragimova’s gleaming sound bathes the top of the ensemble in sunlight but she’s never more than first among equals...the understated poise and intelligence of the playing deepen with repeated... —
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Record Review, 16th May 2020, Record of the Week
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It’s that combination of crisp, earthy clarity and lively, virtuoso sparkle that marks these readings out – in drink terms, think tannin-rich reds against fine, biscuity champagne – along with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Record Review, 17th June 2023, Record of the Week
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Spruce, cleansounding, finely articulated with sparing use of vibrato – this is definitely modern Beethoven. It’s hard to imagine anything less like the plush, expressively orotund Amadeus Quartet... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Once again, the microphones catch the Chiaroscuro in ravishing sound at the Menuhin School – detailed but warm, reporting the realities of wood, hair and gut but transmitting that particular... —
