Zehetmair Quartett
ECM · 4878228 · 64 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine — December 2025 — Editor’s Choice
“It’s rare to come across truly revelatory performances of such oft-recorded repertory, but that’s what the Zehetmair Quartet have given us here.”
— Gramophone Magazine, December 2025
Kirill Gerstein (piano)Hagen Quartett
Myrios · MYR021 · 80 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recordings of the Year — Finalist 2019
- International Classical Music Awards — 2019 — Nominee – Chamber Music
- Diapason d’Or — February 2020 — Nouveauté
“This is technically flawless playing, and discipline and rigour also shape the interpretations. The plangent harmonies are kept firmly in order…The fine-boned vibrato is disciplined, occasional…”
— BBC Music Magazine, February 2020,4 out of 5 stars(Performance) /5 out of 5 stars(Recording)
Artemis Quartet
Erato · 2564612663 · 68 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine — October 2015 — Editor’s Choice
- Gramophone Awards — 2016 — Finalist – Chamber
“The emotional palette is broad: surging intensity is balanced emotionally by tenderness, delicate sensitivity, and…even by touches of humour. But the balance is architectural too. It may be…”
— BBC Music Magazine, December 2015
with Leon Fleisher (piano)Emerson String Quartet
Deutsche Grammophon · 4776458 · 2 hours 21 minutes
Awards:
- BBC Music Magazine — June 2007 — Chamber Choice
- Building a Library — November 2017 — Also Recommended
“When you have an intelligent, technically almost superhuman ensemble like the Emerson Quartet, playing with obvious feeling for the music, reservations about quartet-style fly out of the window.”
— BBC Music Magazine
Till Fellner (piano)Belcea Quartet
Alpha · ALPHA248 · 2 hours 29 minutes
Awards:
- Diapason d’Or de l’Année — 2016 — Winner – Musique de Chambre
- Presto Recordings of the Year — Finalist 2016
“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,…”
— Gramophone Magazine, October 2016
András SchiffTakács Quartet
Decca · 4305292 · 74 minutes
Awards:
- Building a Library — October 2020 — Recommended Recording
Novus Quartet (chamber ensemble)
Aparté · AP366 · 1 hour 43 minutes
“throughout this set, the Novus’s focus seems to be on textual transparency. Such clarity is welcome in the opening movement of the A minor Quartet, which all too often sounds clotted. And with…”
— Gramophone Magazine, April 2025
Natacha Kudritskaya (piano)Brodsky Quartet
Chandos · CHAN10892 · 76 minutes
“It’s 0 to 100 in three seconds: from the first notes and initial crescendo of the Brahms Op. 51 No. 1, the Brodsky Quartet means serious business. All of this long-established ensemble’s considerable…”
— BBC Music Magazine, June 2016,5 out of 5 stars
