Chamber, Quintets, String Quintets
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Special offer. Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516
RecommendedQuatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit (viola)
The performances on this new release are as accomplished as we would expect from players of this calibre. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Building A Library, January 2024, Recommended Recording (String Quintet No. 3)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Chamber
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Dvorak: Quintets Op. 81 & 97
RecommendedBoris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola)
Pavel Haas Quartet
Throughout the slow movement, the playing of the solo lines is captivating…The Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg provide both relaxation and a strong sense of purposeful energy…Excellently recorded,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Recording of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Building a Library, April 2018, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber
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Building A Library, February 2026, Top Choice (Op. 97)
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Boccherini: Music of the Angels
RecommendedCello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets
Steven Isserlis (cello), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
in the String Quintet in D minor G280 – the album’s centrepiece – Isserlis and friends entwine Boccherini’s lyrical strands into a felicitous musical conversation: balanced, measured and fully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2024
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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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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The Nash ensemble have a natural feeling for the music's ebb and flow, and while they're not afraid of big gestures and the bite of horsehair and rosin, they play beautifully as an ensemble...Together,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st March 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill... —
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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There’s a wealth of characterisation within this richly unified, bronze-dark ensemble. A deep-dug, chunky tone, often quite rugged, is offset by moments of intense sweetness, as well as great... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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the Doric Quartet with Timothy Ridout make light of [No. 1's] formidable difficulties. Their very effective pianissimo playing stands them in particularly good stead in the quietly scurrying... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
RecommendedJulian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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Their attention to detail produces constantly arresting textures and the recorded balance allows the all-important viola lines full prominence…Their performance of Dvořák’s last string quartet…is... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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