Chamber, Quartets, Bartók (composer)
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They seem to have assimilated the music into their cells, performing it with an energetic vitality and colour that is all special effects...The group offers high-pixel definition of character,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Chamber
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Classical Album of the Year
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Bartók: Sonata for two pianos and percussion
& other piano music
Cédric Tiberghien (piano), with François-Frédéric Guy (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Sam Walton (percussion)
Tiberghien meets all the technical challenges in these pieces with seeming effortlessness. His touch is pellucid, and he knows ho to bring out the charm of Bartók’s arrangements; every grace... —
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Here's another enlightened programme from the young German Schumann Quartet...Haydn's Sunrise is freshly radiant in their hands, the Menuett almost swung with an elastic rhythmic bounce, the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, Chamber Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2017, Winner - Jahrespreis
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These performances provide more impressive sampling points than can be enumerated in a single review. The First Quartet's oscillating tempo-shifts work wonderfully well, all with total naturalness.... —
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Building a Library, April 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2021, Recommended Recording
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Two of the strengths of the Heath Quartet are their ability to hold together Bartók’s more sectional structures, such as the first movements of the Fourth and Fifth quartets in convincing single... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 10th June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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Radu Lupu: The Unreleased Recordings
Decca Masters and Radio Tapes 1970-2002
Radu Lupu (piano), Tel Aviv String Quartet, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Kazimierz Kord
The very qualities that limited his discography - doubt, self-criticism, an acute fear of exposure - are precisely those that give these recordings their emotional charge. Heard now, they do... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Archive Issue of the Month
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Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1-6
RecommendedTokyo String Quartet
Koichiro Harada (violin), Kikuei Ikeda (violin), Kazuhide Isomura (viola) & Sadao Harada (cello)
Awards:
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Building a Library, September 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Chamber
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The Danish String Quartet’s Prism series is building into an exceptionally rewarding venture…The remarkable precision of the Danish is apparent throughout, moving as one organism whether in... —
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Colour is...very much the Hagen's thing, widely spaced dynamics too, which are vividly projected; and where keeping to the letter matters most, they don't disappoint either —
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Building a Library, February 2021, Also Recommended
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