Browse: Schumann - String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1

Here’s playing that penetrates this music to a degree that surprised even a fully paid-up [Schumann] fan like me. The Emerson are such a fine ensemble, but they’re also four strongly individual... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Here's a disc that merits an especially big welcome...At last comes a strong challenger which brings together all three of these wonderful but so often misunderstood quartets. The play has all... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The songs, with the stratospheric, laser-beam soprano of Anna Lucia Richter, fare particularly well…In the two formal quartets there’s no mistaking the passion and energy of the four players,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Recorded live at Washington’s Library of Congress, the highlight here is Rudolf Serkin’s exhilarating contribution to Schumann’s Piano Quintet. Elsewhere, dry acoustics expose some roughness... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 3 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…