Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 51 'Seven Last Words'

"The Kodaly Quartet give an outstanding performance, strongly characterized and beautifully played, with subtle contrasts of expressive tension between the seven inner slow movements. ...The recording is first rate, vividly present yet naturally balanced, like the other issues in this attractive Naxos series." - GRAMOPHONE - Feb 91

"We dreamt of this project for many long years: to combine the thought of one of the great observers of our time with the evocative power of a great photographer and the passion of a musicologist and enlightened amateur quartet player... What we could not have imagined is the deeply moving encounter that was to be the outcome, transforming our view of this recording and giving birth to an unexpected friendship under the complex aegis of Haydn. The Seven Last Words of Christ, or to realise that we are all equally mortal..." Quatuor Ysaÿe