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• “The group's virtues include exemplary string-quartet "hygiene" - ensemble in rapid passages, intonation in unisons and matching of bow strokes.”

  The Washington Post: Leipzig Quartet doesn't play it rough enough

• “Invite the Kronos Quartet for a residency and you know you won't just get another tour around the familiar string-quartet repertoire.”

  The Guardian: This week's new live music

• “He explained that gap in his expertise by dissing opera, writing that it was less compelling than his favorite string-quartet music: "To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Blog Too Far: How the Maestro Made Them Mad

• “It has been a real privilege to experience string-quartet playing of such selfless intelligence and peerless musicality.”

  The Guardian: Takács Quartet

• “Then I got a string-quartet version and it made much more sense.”

  Musical adapations that were meant to be

• “Français, who died at 80 on Feb. 4, was an expert on Stradivarius instruments, and his memory was honored with a string-quartet performance of Borodin's Nocturne.”

  Mighty Windbags

• “He will, in fact, follow the example set by good string-quartet players, who listen attentively to the other instruments during rehearsals, so that the perfect welding together of the different parts may form a homogeneous whole.”

  Style in Singing

• “So we find him writing songs, the three Japanese lyrics, for instance, that are epigrammatic in their brevity; a piece for string-quartet that is played in fifty seconds; a three-act opera that can be performed in thirty minutes.”

  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

• “One of his miniatures for string-quartet bangs with the beat of the wooden shoes of peasants dancing to the snarling tones of a bagpipe.”

  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

• “Opus 6, Four Studies for the pianoforte; Opus 7, Two songs; "Les Rois des Etoiles," for chorus and orchestra; Three songs on Japanese poems with orchestral accompaniment; Three pieces for string-quartet; An unpublished pianoforte sonata; A ballet for clowns.”

  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

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