Beethoven - String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18 No. 2

the highly accomplished Chiaroscuro promote an ‘Ibragimovian’ view of Beethoven that is above all dynamic, intelligent, agile and argumentative, with much vividly attenuated phrasing added to... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2021 More…

I attended some of these sessions and can still recall the forensic care and commitment the Takács brought to these works. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017 More…

They play with extraordinary strenuousness, very unlike the Alban Berg Quartet with whom they studied. The Belceas re-enact the creative torments of the composer to a degree where you feel their... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Robert Simpson disagreed with writers who believed that Beethoven's backward glances to Haydn and Mozart in his Op 18 set were so obvious as to distract attention from his own individuality.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Some quartets choose to stress the continuity with the recent past, others to dig out signs of things to come. The Jerusalem Quartet strike a particularly fine balance. We are always aware of... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015 More…