“There is a fairly high level of intensity in these Prokofiev works for the young Czech players to meet, and they rise vividly to the challenge…it's probably right that [they] feel its ebb and flow with passionate engagement.”
BBC Music Magazine, April 2010
“Prokofiev's Second Quartet is one of the most immediately attractive quartets in the repertoire. In the wondrous Adagio the cello line rises high, ghostly melodic statements in octaves can expose the smallest tuning difficulties and pizzicati needs must sparkle like ice. The young players pass every test before dispatching the inventive finale with equal aplomb… The strenuously wrought First Quartet comes off just as well. The concluding Andante… is rarely tackled with the passion you find here. Of the small clutch of „classic“ performances of the component pieces, none is more usefully programmed than the present disc, nor so naturally recorded. Why hesitate?”
Gramophone, March 2010
“Beautifully performed … fierce intensity and fierce clarity go hand in hand.”
The Sunday Times, 31st January 2010
“Their tone is large, quasi-orchestral. They take risks; often they play fast. Above all, they play with passion…Semi-quavers scurry, all sinews showing. Fortissimo attacks blast your socks off…Gloriously invigorating and a great antidote to the winter blues.”
The Guardian, 29th January 2010
“…a performance of tremendous musical energy: robust, well characterised and exact.”
The Independent on Sunday, 17th January 2010
Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet in B minor No. 1, Op. 50
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1. | Allegro | 06:58 | |
2. | Andante molto - Vivace | 07:11 | |
3. | Andante | 09:51 | |
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op. 56
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4. | Andante cantabile | 03:17 | |
5. | Allegro | 02:57 | |
6. | Commodo (quasi Allegretto) | 03:39 | |
7. | Allegro con brio | 05:12 | |
Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet No. 2 in F major /on Kabardinian themes/, Op. 92
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8. | Allegro sostenuto | 06:15 | |
9. | Adagio | 07:27 | |
10. | Allegro - Andante molto | 07:52 |