Browse: Wihan Quartet (string quartet)

One of the performers’ tasks [in the Franck] is to grade the excitements so that we get some feeling of shape in a whole movement. Here this task is fulfilled admirably, helped by discreet vibrato... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2020 More…

The Wihan Quartet’s collective sound has a rounded fullness and mellow, tawny-brown colouring which, besides being handsome in itself, also means that they never have to force any kind of would-be... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Wihans' performance [of No. 9] goes straight to the Quartet's heart.The first movement takes a little while to settle, but, as a whole, this is an enormously impressive reading that searches... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Their performance of the first movement of Smetana’s autobiographical First Quartet is deeply satisfying, making the most of its drama without undermining its clarity of structure...There is... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Wihan Quartet gives a deeply considered ensemble performance. The sweetness of tone achieved in the Adagio is remarkable and the first movement has irresistible impetus…Janacek's First String... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If these readings lack the last iota of magic, they are certainly highly recommendable. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the Wihan Quartet can sound modest, even retiring. But their more introverted approach also has a ring of authenticity. This is not so much a Schubert of grandeur and extremes, but of subtle... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…