"As profound as a listener could want."  

 

"The glittering clarity of the Brentano's sound was intoxicating...A revelatory performance."  

 

"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."   "As usual with this ensemble, the performances were full of life...They seem to be listening to the same heartbeat."  

 

"Such was their ferocity on Saturday night that the instruments almost burst into flames...Make no mistake: the Brentanos are a magnificent quartet...This was wonderful, selfless music making."

 

"Exemplary performances...startling musical revelations."  

 

"Magnificent...The Brentanos [are] the talk of the chamber-music community."  

 

"Hair raising...An ensemble of exceptional insight and communicative gifts."  

 

"The Brentano could not have offered a more convincing interpretation...Rewarding in every way."  

 

"Brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow, its members perfectly meshed in sound while retaining their individual personalities—the Brentano 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."  

 

"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 good as promised. They followed with as momentous a performance of Beethoven's Op. 130 quartets as I've ever heard live...Passionate, uninhibited and spell-bounding."  

 

"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."