Gringolts Quartet

The Gringolts Quartet play both works with absolute mastery, and it would be difficult to imagine more convincing performances. Lingering particularly in the memory is the middle section of... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Second Quartet’s yearning first movement and the desperate scutterings of its scherzo are conveyed in febrile, hyper-Romantic style…Yet the Gringolt’s precision and finesse in the Fourth... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This repertoire might indeed be alien to most listeners, but what a treat to get to know it. Lopes’s love for the bassoon is infectious, and this selection of works (old and new) for the instrument... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Both Mendelssohn and Enescu octets are contrapuntal masterpieces. Here’s a fascinating chance to compare and contrast them, thanks to these light and well-articulated performances. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These four fine players are consistently musical in their approach and there is nothing outlandish or suspect about their interpretations. And therein perhaps lies their weakness, for it's precisely... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012 More…

There's so much sensitive give and take between the four instruments here, so much intimacy and subtle variation of colour, that the feeling is that these are Romantic chamber gems comparable... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This attractive disc of string quintets from the Gringolts Quartet and (real luxury-casting, this) cellist Christian Poltéra finds Taneyev at his most melodically engaging and Glazunov at his... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…