CD, Penderecki (composer)

[The Meccore Quartet] sound both entirely at home with and viscerally challenged by this music...There is serious competition in the recording of a similar programme by the Silesian Quartet,... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2023 More…

The ebb and flow of the confessional Quartet No. 3...is navigated with an assurance that speaks to their inside-out assimilation of all six scores. To have such a comprehensive programme vividly... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2021 More…

[the Penderecki's] not the sort of music that comes off if played half-heartedly, and the Royal String Quartet, with a detailed, clear recording, give it a natural precision and direction...[the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This album’s title, ‘Dreamtime’, suggests a programme of quiet listening – a slew of soothing adagios, perhaps – but it’s actually nothing of the sort...Whether Mozart had a ‘Romantic vision’... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…