BBC Music Magazine: Bartók • Beethoven • Dvorák: String Quartets (Juilliard String Quartet)
BBC Music Magazine
Jessica Duchen
Bartók • Beethoven • Dvořák (5-star rating)
Bartók: String Quartet No. 3; Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8, Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Rasumovsky’; Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 ‘American’
The Juilliard String Quartet celebrates its 75th anniversary this year– and here is the first recording with its most recent recruit, first violin Areta Zhulla. While its membership has changed over the decades, the quartet is still associated with the institution it is named after (all its members teach there), and its trademark tonal beauty, sensitively attuned ensemble and technical splendour is amply on show in this recording.
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