BRENTANO QUARTET

HIGHLIGHTED PRESS EXCERPTS

“Such was their ferocity on Saturday night that the instruments almost burst into flames….Make no mistake: the Brentanos are a magnificent string quartet….This was wonderful, selfless music making.”
--The Times (London)

"Spectacular…Superbly balanced…Sublime."
--The Washington Post

“Something special…their music making is private, delicate and fresh, but by its very intimacy and importance it seizes attention.”
--The New York Times

"Compelling….Mesmerizing…Superb."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

“As profound as a listener could want.”
--Houston Chronicle

“Hair-raising....an ensemble of exceptional insight and communicative gifts.”
--The Daily Telegraph (London)

COMPLETE PRESS EXCERPTS

“[A] remarkable capacity for magical ensemble playing…effervescent.”
--The Washington Post

“The Brentano Quartet spat and sparked like a St. Elmo’s fire…they play in a tense, coiled style.”
--Newsday (New York)

"Spectacular…Superbly balanced…Sublime."
--The Washington Post

"Compelling….Mesmerizing…Superb."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

“As profound as a listener could want.”
--Houston Chronicle

“The glittering clarity of the Brentano’s sound was intoxicating....a revelatory performance.”
--The Strad

“The Brentano String Quartet...is something special….
Their music making is private, delicate and fresh, but by its very intimacy and importance it seizes attention.”
--The New York Times

“As usual with this ensemble, the performances were full of life….They seem to be listening to the same heartbeat.”
--The New York Times

“Such was their ferocity on Saturday night that the instruments almost burst into flames….Make no mistake: the Brentanos are a magnificent string quartet….This was wonderful, selfless music making.”
--The Times (London)

“Exemplary performances...startling musical revelations.”
--The Guardian (London)

“Magnificent...The Brentanos [are] the talk of the chamber-music community.”
--Kansas City Star

“Hair-raising....an ensemble of exceptional insight and communicative gifts.”
--The Daily Telegraph (London)

“The Brentano Quartet could not have offered a more convincing interpretation…rewarding in every way.”
--The Washington Post

“Brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow, its members perfectly meshed in sound while retaining their individual personalities—the Brentano String Quartet....must be one of the great musical hopes of a field overcrowded with contenders….
The [players] made every utterance sing and every phrase connect within the total.”
--Los Angeles Times

“I’d never heard the Brentano before—this was their British debut—but I knew of their reputation. And the agile, wiry intelligence of their playing, in a constant state of alert, was every bit as good as promised.
They followed with as momentous a performance of Beethoven’s Op. 130 quartet as I’ve ever heard live...passionate, uninhibited and spell-binding.”
--The Independent (London)

“The concert made it clear that these players could well be the best of the latest generation. Their level of individual technique was superb, while musical dialog necessary for rich chamber music was evident from first to last.”
--Philadelphia Inquirer