assurance and engagement are fully evident here, and it's not just in the response to the variety of tone and timbre asked for, but in the care over intonation - always a potential problem in non-tonal music...The Tetzlaff Quartet find the strength of the underlying pulse within the music, and draw all the threads of this most beautiful work together.

Their combined sound is highly refined and honed, resulting in a tautness of approach that gives Mendelssohn's A minor Quartet real potency and drive. Even in the most driven passages, textures always have a sparkling clarity...the Tetzlaff reveal [the Berg's] extraordinary beauties. They are alive to every nuance, every emotional change of this highly charged music.

This recording reinforces the [Tetzlaff Quartet]'s technical excellence and interpretive conviction…[the Lyric Suite is] instilled with that cumulative intensity which draws all six movements into a taut and unremitting continuity…[their Mendelssohn] is a perceptive account of music whose wresting of innovation out of tradition has arguably gained in significance over time.