Elias String Quartet
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The Elias Quartet, whose penetration of Beethoven’s works is second to none, take Schumann’s anxiety fully into account, without in any way trying to make these later works comparable. A pity... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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…the players capture beautifully the mix of grace and jokiness in the Mozart Minuet, and in the Mendelssohn they apply just enough rubato to give colour and meaning, without ever interrupting... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Newcomer of the Year
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highly assured performances of these two marvellous chamber works...this warmly recorded performance is most compelling when Schumann explores the extrovert side of his musical personality...While... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Volume 4
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 1 November 2014
Elias String Quartet
This review could be very brief: buy these two discs! [The Elias Quartet] are simply astounding, in the freshness, intensity, assurance and seeming spontaneity of their playing…[Bitlloch] cultivates... — More…
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Record Review, 30th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Emily Howard: Magnetite
Lucy Goddard (mezzo-soprano) & Simon Whiteley (bass), Alexandra Dariescu (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, scapegoat, Elias String Quartet, Andrew Gourlay
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The composer's own lute transcriptions are her models and she finds ingenious means to overcome the problems introduced when recasting, say, a bowed violin line for the plucked guitar...While... — More…
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Huw Watkins: In My Craft or Sullen Art
Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Huw Watkins (piano), Alina Ibragimova (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor)
The Nash Ensemble, Elias Quartet, Ian Brown
What strikes you most about Huw Watkins's music is its natural ease. Lyricism flourishes, and tonal echoes are exposed alongside chromatic scrunches and abrasive textures. — More…
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