Browse: Cuarteto Casals (string quartet)

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…

the period players of Cuarteto Casals reveal an intimate uderstanding of the special qualities of Mozart's quartet style...virtually every phrase is brought to life and coloured by some variations... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Among modern performances I have heard none that surpasses this for obsessiveness. Even so, the Cuarteto Casals manage not to fall into the trap of making this an aural ordeal for the listener...but... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Using Classical bows, the variety of nuance and colour these players derive from gradations of vibrato and bow pressure alone constitutes a masterclass in quartet playing. Yet it is the sheer... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Astonishingly insightful playing, musically captivating and technically blemishless. Each and every phrase rings so completely true that one can't imagine the music being played any other way. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There's an endearing warmth to their playing but it never tips over into the kind of lushness of sonority that you find in the Alban Berg and the recent Emerson set. The opening of Op 67 twinkles... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2008 More…