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This disc, devoted exclusively to Kurtág's music for string quartet, is of great significance, and both performance and recording are equal to the enterprise. The Keller Quartet have secure technique... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Holliger's Contrechamps, in particular, is a veritable compendium of clarinet effects, including several uncanny moments when the clarinet seems to play parallel chords...Reto Bieri makes all... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Under Igor Karsko’s committed direction, the playing of Camerata Zürich is superb and very well recorded, and there is a clear feeling throughout for the rich sentiment underlying these memories... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For a sampling of how things have changed you need to no further than the Prelude to the First Suite where on this new recording, come the second half of the movement, Demenga speeds along the... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

the Budapest-based Keller Quartet handle the individual demands of both composers thoughtfully. A cleaner, cooler, more controlled Barber I doubt you'll find: zero warbling vibrato, no emotive... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…

Talk about intelligent programming: after Voices we're offered six genuine historical folk song performances from the archives - street cries, prayers for religious festivals, lullabies - which... — Matt Fernand, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002 More…