Browse: Belcea Quartet (string quartet)
This page lists all recordings performed by Belcea Quartet.
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Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... — More…
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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They play with extraordinary strenuousness, very unlike the Alban Berg Quartet with whom they studied. The Belceas re-enact the creative torments of the composer to a degree where you feel their... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th November 2012
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Building a Library, October 2013, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Chamber
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This CD is the work of a highly talented, exceptionally well-integrated ensemble. Their excellent balance is highlighted by crystal-clear recording. This is quartet-playing of great musicality,... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2004, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Chamber
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The playing in these endlessly fascinating and rewarding pieces is supremely accomplished. Distinguished Bartók cycles in recent years include those by the Alban Berg (EMI), Emerson (DG) and... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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The Belcea Quartet’s first Shostakovich release offers much food for thought. Their insightful performance of the Third Quartet fully encapsulates the work’s war-scarred anguish…Anderszewski... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Record Review, 5th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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Thomas Adès features both as composer and pianist on this release: two piano quintets which, though composed 182 years apart, are equally alive with formal and expressive provocations.
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2005, Editor's Choice
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In 2003 the Belcea Quartet recorded a nerves-on-a-knife’s-edge account of Brahms’s C minor Quartet (Op 51 No 1) for EMI. Here, more than a decade on, their conception retains its essential ferocity,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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These are superb performances, with well-judged tempos, nicely sprung rhythms… a sense of spontaneity. — More…
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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The traditionally ceremonial key of C major takes on a different hue in Schubert's Quintet. …the playing is on the loftiest level, ensemble always transparently clean; and the ability to think,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Chamber
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