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Alban Berg Quartet

Reviews

A performance of definitive greatness.
South Bank Centre (London), Schubert Quintet/Schiff

The best performances of Mozart I have heard for some time.
South Bank Centre (London), Mozart

A magisterial and uncompromising performance.
South Bank Centre (London), Schnittke

The Alban Berg Quartet have an instinctual togetherness. They breathe and come in like a single organism. Their sound is chestnut sweet and their feeling for each other’s impulses is as sure as radar. They know how to make noise sound beautiful.
South Bank Centre (London), Berio

Intense, exemplary performances, notable equally for their passion and their precision…spellbinding authority…peerlessly persuasive advocacy.
20th century collection (BBC Music Magazine)

Cultivated and masterful..in every regard quite superb.
Haydn/EMI (Classic CD)

Uncommonly fine..the Bergs bring a rare imaginative insight to this ever-astonishing, inexhaustible music.
Haydn/EMI (Gramophone)

What impresses me above all is the flexibility and sensitivity of these performances…the Alban Berg, by subtly drawing our attention to the precise emotional colour of all Schubert’s magical harmonic shifts, find a touching, intimate quality within the grand design.
Schubert/EMI (Gramophone)

If there’s any finer string quartet playing in the world today then I’ve missed it.
Beethoven, Rihm, Schnittke/EMI (Classic CD)

Few string quartets rival the precision and passion of the Alban Bergs.
Berio, Lutoslawski & Urbanner/EMI (Sunday Times)