Doric String Quartet
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Elgar: Symphony No. 1 & Introduction and Allegro
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, Doric String Quartet, Edward Gardner
Complex, multi-faceted, subtly changeable Elgar…Gardner is a master of transitions: the gradual transformation of scherzo to slow movement is only the most striking, but there are plenty of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Building A Library, June 2024, Recommended Recording (Symphony No. 1)
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Here's a disc that merits an especially big welcome...At last comes a strong challenger which brings together all three of these wonderful but so often misunderstood quartets. The play has all... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2011, Disc of the Month
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The Doric Quartet, making sparing use of vibrato, play with much sensitivity. Their slow movements, in particular, are beautifully done...But elsewhere a determination to characterise the music... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
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The performances are all superbly judged and controlled, balancing fragility with strength, restraint with great depth of feeling… The early Divertimenti, played with considerable wit and elegance,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music & Absolute Jest
Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
The RSNO’s playing captures all the delicacy, grandeur and zing of Adams’s complex score, while the Doric String Quartet brings sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity to its solo part…There... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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Both [Op. 44 quartets] have long first movements – genial in the D major, more plangent and yearning in the E minor - and it’s a measure of the performances that they capture these moods with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Chamber Choice
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The Doric Quartet emphasises [the works'] unpredictability with their vivid and insightful interpretations that bristle with life and character. Although employing a wide palette of timbres...they... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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Op. 44/3 is the longest of the quartets, and the outer movements can sometimes come across as prolix. The Doric’s performance steers clear of this trap – again through the controlled variety... — More…
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Chamber
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Daniel’s immaculate playing is the main attraction here. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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These are performances that take you inside the music, so that it’s almost possible to hear them with a performer’s ear and experience the delight as the notes leap off the page and into life... — More…
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