Browse: Walton - Piano Quartet

The Maggini Quartet give refined and powerful performances in this Naxos release. The opening of the 1947 String Quartet is presented in hushed intimacy, making the contrast all the greater when... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Violinist Matthew Jones and pianist Annabel Thwaite need all the finger fire at their command for the extravagantly ‘modern’ 1923 Toccata, the one work here with a limited outlet for the lyrically... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This excellent Hyperion issue brings together a wide-ranging group of Walton's chamber works, from his earliest major work, the Piano Quartet, originally written when he was 16, to his last instrumental... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

there are good reasons for having the Bridge, Bax and Walton together. While individual rivals may be slightly preferable in some respects, there’s never much in it and there’s the additional... — MusicWeb International, 22nd May 2013 More…

A starry level of professional chamber-music playing is par for the course in these islands. Even so, the quality on display here - above all, the near-perfect interplay between collective statement... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…