Chamber, Quartets, String Quartets, Schubert (composer)
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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 Takács have recorded it before. Back in 1997 for Decca its tensile urgency was to the fore...But the experience of nearly three decades has intervened, as has changes of personnel. The result... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Chamber
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Schubert: Octet
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn), James Munro (double bass)
There is much to admire here: some exquisitely wistful clarinet phrasing from Coppola, and a frightening fierceness in the sudden outburst that heralds the finale, where Schubert seems momentarily... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Schubert: Death And The Maiden & String Quintet In C Major
Recommendedwith Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Pavel Haas Quartet, with the superb extra cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, even succeed where most other ensembles fail, making the last movement of the String Quintet into something that seems... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Chamber
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Schubert's two most accessible quartets receive interpretations on this disc which are as near ideal as one is ever likely to hear. In a time of great string quartet playing, the Takács Quartet... —
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Building a Library, October 2009, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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The quartet sound itself combines a lovely rich sonority with a tremendous span of weight, timbre and attack...Beautiful stuff, while also being something you can get your intellectual teeth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Schubert: Death & the Maiden Quartets
Recommendedwith Douglas Cummings (cello)
The Lindsays
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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While I’m instinctively sceptical about instrumental transcriptions of vocal works, I was persuaded by how well they work here, and the subtlety and intelligence of the performances…And in this... —
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber Music (quartet)
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This is a coruscating performance from their first icy creeping entrance…I particularly love their evocation of the trio’s idyll as something infinitely distant, untouchable. —
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Record Review, 18th March 2017, Recording of the Week
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The traditionally ceremonial key of C major takes on a different hue in Schubert's Quintet. …the playing is on the loftiest level, ensemble always transparently clean; and the ability to think,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Chamber
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Building A Library, May 2026, Recommended Recording (String Quartet No. 15)
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