SACD, Audite (label)
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This is the most exciting new disc of string quartet playing that I have come across for a long time —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Chamber Choice
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The Quartetto di Cremona’s ongoing Beethoven cycle has particularly impressed me for its visceral excitement and pulsating energy…[they demonstrate] consummate mastery of soft mysterious playing,... —
Awards:
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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Early, middle and late Beethoven is projected with visceral excitement and pulsating energy by this gifted quartet. Occasionally I missed a more lyrical approach, especially in Op. 59 No. 1 —
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Beethoven's most experimental in the medium. The playing, as ever, is blisteringly detailed and right in your face: you can feel the grain of the music and actually hear the fierce tension of... —
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Stamitz: Quartets for Clarinet
Arthur Campbell (clarinet), Gregory Maytan (violin), Paul Swantek (viola) & Pablo Mahave-Veglia (cello)
Campbell’s fluid playing has a lovely warm tone and the supporting strings are not over-vibrant. This is music which certainly deserves to be much better known. —
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A long and fascinating journey comes to an end. These interpretations are powerful, vibrating, excitingly intense and inspiring from the very first to the very last note, providing decisive... —
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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She begins with the Wanderer Fantasy, revelling in the colouristic possibilites of its slow section, and proves more than equal to the work's considerable and frequently unpianistic technical... —
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The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of tonal involvement...Internal balance of the ensemble is just and the performances overall are good. But music of such... —
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