Browse: Fred Sherry String Quartet (string quartet)

the energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings...Thorough but life-affirming,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…

What all the songs have in common...is brevity: each is a perfectly etched miniature, a nugget of impacted lyricism, and Arnold unwraps them with immense care. — The Guardian, 6th May 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Suite in G for string orchestra (1934) is actually subtitled 'in the old style'… The final Gigue is the most immediately appealing movement but Robert Craft directs a sprightly performance... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2006 More…

The urgency is raw and immediate, occasionally hard-driven in an acoustic suggesting confined spaces and close interactions; the result is undeniably exciting...With their experience of the later... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 More…

Hilary Hahn's recording of Schoenberg's Violin Concerto (see above) paraded cool beauty where others could find only sweat and tears. Yes, an overstatement perhaps – Louis Krasner and Israel... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…