Brahms - Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

The Pavel Haas Quartet and Boris Giltburg take on [the Piano Quintet] with no holds barred: this is an allgiving, full-on version in which the sense of involvement is total and the exhilaration... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is technically flawless playing, and discipline and rigour also shape the interpretations. The plangent harmonies are kept firmly in order…The fine-boned vibrato is disciplined, occasional... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

With an almost ideal balance between piano and strings, the variety of articulation in their playing brings a marvellous textural variety to the full-blooded writing in the outer movements of... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In 2003 the Belcea Quartet recorded a nerves-on-a-knife’s-edge account of Brahms’s C minor Quartet (Op 51 No 1) for EMI. Here, more than a decade on, their conception retains its essential ferocity,... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

When you have an intelligent, technically almost superhuman ensemble like the Emerson Quartet, playing with obvious feeling for the music, reservations about quartet-style fly out of the window. — BBC Music Magazine More…