How wonderful to see Nimbus demonstrating all its strengths in this superb issue… which contains some of the
most uninhibited quartet playing I have heard in a long while, on or off record. There have been so many
Shostakovich quartet recordings in recent years, but few, if any, have matched this. I have only heard the
Prokofiev once in live performance! It would be a real victory for the recording industry if this disc could spawn
concert performances of the quartet. The Kopelman Quartet clearly takes the work very seriously…and the
recording really comes into its own in the Adagio, where the violin pizzicati are stunningly caught. In the
Kopelman Quartet’s hands, this is like hearing the piece with new ears. Surely, this disc will win the piece many
friends. A tremendous success. More, please.