Stenhammar Quartet

Unfailingly perceptive and idiomatic performances from the Stenhammar Quartet, bringing Rangstrom's scintillating textural drive and Atterberg's exultant lyricism fully to life. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

These three concertos belong marvellously well together…All three of their readings immediately announce the collaboration of five strong-minded executants uninhibited by the ‘a quattro’ format... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Tailleferre’s String Quartet may not measure up to its companions here in quality, but even so it’s interesting to hear how, at the end of World War I, she was absorbing Satie’s influence…Its... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Composed in 1928, [the First Quartet] opens with a gentle, Pärt-like lullaby, yet pre-dates that Estonian composer’s tintinnabuli style by about 50 years…The Second Quartet, composed shortly... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

A charming and repeatable release where No. 6, especially, deserves to be better known. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014More…

The Stenhammars conclude the first-ever complete cycle of their namesake's quartets on disc with characteristically energetic and well-explored readings of his first two essays in the genre. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015More…