Janacek/ Szymanowski: String Quartets Chamber String Quartet Chandos

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Comparisons are relevant only as far as acquiring separate discs of these quartets… The new disc, recorded with admirable clarity and featuring a thought-provoking note by Antony Beaumont, will none the less prove hard to surpass should a direct rival eventually emerge.

International Record Review

This is a brilliant idea for a CD. Composed within a time-frame of 11 years (1917-28), at a similar geographical distance from the main cosmopolitan centres of music, and with similar stylistic overlaps between late Romanticism and modernism, these two pairs of quartets make for genuinely illuminating comparison.

Gramophone

The Schoenberg Quartet’s reading of the Szymanowski quartets is near ideal. While always expressive, they manage to make superb sense of the composer’s contrapuntal writing and seem to relish the more challenging excursions into a surprisingly dissonant sound world in the second quartet.

BBC Music Magazine

The Dutch Schoenberg Quartet, best known for its Chandos cycle of Second Viennese School chamber music, plays all four works with a telling advocacy…

The Telegraph

The Schoenbergs play with thoughtful attention to detail and their fulsome sound keeps passions high.

Classic FM

The Schoenberg Quartet adds that element of emotional daring which makes all the difference in the world. Outstanding.

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