Browse: Quartetto di Cremona Beethoven String Quartets (series)

The Quartetto di Cremona’s ongoing Beethoven cycle has particularly impressed me for its visceral excitement and pulsating energy…[they demonstrate] consummate mastery of soft mysterious playing,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

A long and fascinating journey comes to an end. These interpretations are powerful, vibrating, excitingly intense and inspiring from the very first to the very last note, providing decisive proof... — International Classical Music Awards, 2018 More…

This is the most exciting new disc of string quartet playing that I have come across for a long time — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016 More…

[The Cremona] are well up to their usual standard in the exhilarating performance for the A major Quartet Op. 18 No. 5, with its wonderfully peremptory opening and its general air of a youthful... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 2 out of 5 stars More…

The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of tonal involvement...Internal balance of the ensemble is just and the performances overall are good. But music of such... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 More…

The Quartetto di Cremona exude phenomenal energy and momentum, making their interpretation of Op. 95 particularly compelling. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Beethoven's most experimental in the medium. The playing, as ever, is blisteringly detailed and right in your face: you can feel the grain of the music and actually hear the fierce tension of... — The Herald (Glasgow), April 2015 More…

Early, middle and late Beethoven is projected with visceral excitement and pulsating energy by this gifted quartet. Occasionally I missed a more lyrical approach, especially in Op. 59 No. 1 — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…