Chamber, Quartets, Janáček (composer)

…what is immediately striking about the present performance is its boldness and originality in terms of tempo contrasts, rhythmic emphasis and textural variety. Not only the playing beyond... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

…totally compelling and warmly recorded performances… — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019More…

For a moment or two in the Smetana one might think that the Takács Quartet's almost Olympian objectivity wouldn't suit music that often seems to well up so directly from the heart. In fact it's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015More…

Janácek changed his mind a great deal, especially about the Second Quartet, on the way from composition to performance and even after that. Most records use the scores published in Prague respectively... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…