Browse: Smith Quartet (string quartet)

This is, finally, the memorial that all of us who were admirers of Steve Martland’s music have been waiting for…Anyone interested in the variety of British music of the 20th century should explore... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

…Different Trains… is beautifully clear, and played with a rather touching delicacy which brings out the subtle poetry of the ending (Reich isn't often credited with a power to move, but he certainly... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If success was measured according to output and sales units alone, Glass would be head and shoulders above his contemporaries. His compositions for conventional combinations, including the five... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

With a smorgasbord of aesthetic approaches...some tracks inevitably appeal more than others. Finnissy's seditious upending of a classical minuet, with dance-steps forced to trip over themselves,... — Classic FM Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This disc can sometimes feel as though you are reading three different books concurrently (not necessarily a bad thing). If you can accept the disparate styles, the music is meaningful, beautiful... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

McChrystal excels in these mainly slow, reflective pieces — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Smith Quartet's razor-sharp intensity is particularly suited to the evocation of macabre soundscapes, and there is plenty of it here, from the edgy agoraphobia opening Tim Souster's Hambledon... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2007 More…