Mozart - String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K421

If you like your Mozart taut and urgent, with no concessions to Mozartian ‘charm’, you should find these brilliantly executed performances as riveting as I do. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021 More…

Their playing once again exhibits fearlessness and pinpoint accuracy, deeply considered blend and a palpable joy in the colour palette available to the string quartet. They have been captured... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

[the divertmenti are] normally done with full orchestral forces, but they work perfectly well as string quartets - especially when performed as immaculately as here, with everything honed to... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mozart’s Haydn quartets from the 1780s, part of the composer’s golden period, possess invention, with and touches of tragedy which the Engegards mirror with intimate, soulful, subtle playing.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This performance doesn’t attempt to sound gratuitously beautiful, but digs into the tragic substance of the music, and the players aren’t afraid to bring flexibility to the pulse, so there’s... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These performances by the Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna are suffused with a rich, warm and sweet tone - what one might call appropriately Viennese qualities - and the players communicate... — BBC Music Magazine More…