Chamber, Quartets, String Quartets, Berg (composer)

Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This is an outstanding performance of Berg's Lyric Suite. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Heath Quartet convey the [Schoenberg’s] often intimate intensity with great sensitivity, and Carolyn Sampson’s warm lyricism is ideal both in the forward-looking finale, and in the slow... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The strong emotions that soloist and conductor doubtless felt within six months of the composer's death ensure that there is more than enough raw and authentic feeling to counter any purely... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…

The opening account of Schumann’s best known quartet, Op 41 No 3 in A minor, gives a good sense of the warmth and immediacy of Quartet Gerhard’s playing, but it’s Berg’s Lyric Suite that shows... — The Guardian, 5th October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…