Browse: Schnittke - String Quartet No. 3

A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven’s introspection feels more unsettling than usual. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2019 More…

The Molinaris avoid the Kronos's tendency to overdramatise the material, and their account of the Fourth's persistently fragmenting structure also lets the material do the work. Schnittke embeds... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…

Shostakovich's last three Quartet can seem bleak and uncomprising, yet the Pacifica Quartet manages to extract a much wider range of colours from this music than do many other interpreters. Their... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A trio of characterful and accomplished 20th-century string quartets make a satisfyingly substantial programme of a kind now rare on the contemporary recording scene...the Signum Quartet respond... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2013 More…