Elgar - String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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This is one of those rare discs that give pleasure and food for thought in equal measure...when [Elgar's chamber music] is played with the kind of understanding shown by these five musicians... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Disc of the month
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exceptionally searching readings...These are dedicated performances which understandingly bring out the contrast between the expansive Quintet, bold in rhetoric, and the more intimate Quartet,... —
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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The Quartet’s first movement is Elgar at his most elliptical, and the Brodskys catch its unpredictable oscillations expertly…The fiery finale invites bombast, but the Brodskys combine bite and... —
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The ‘floating on air’ quality that suffuses the music of Fauré’s quartet is diff icult to catch, but it’s sustained across all three movements of this constantly stimulating interpretation. —
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Eloquent and sensitive performances of some of the finest British chamber works of our century —
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Ripely captured by the microphones, the Villiers Quartet are on dedicated form and their reading of the work as we know it today is likewise a laudable one…for Delius diehards the disc will... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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the Maggini Quartet impress with the luminous refinement and beguiling tonal beauty of their music-making —
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While better recordings may exist of some of the more famous pieces, there is a stellar offering from cellist Raphael Wallfisch, whose playing is lyrical and powerful. —
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