"Great art" - FAZ
"...drama, expression and utmost sensitivity." - THE STRAD
"...downright wonderful, with a perfect balance of warmth and objective clarity…” - GRAMOPHONE
"Great art" - FAZ "...drama, expression and utmost sensitivity." - THE STRAD "...downright wonderful, with a perfect balance of warmth and objective clarity…” - GRAMOPHONE
The Bennewitz Quartet’s homage to that famous Viennese evening culminates in a superb performance of the Dissonance: rhythmically strong and supple, always sensitive to harmonic colour (as in their timing and shading of the finale’s sly key shifts) and alive to every subtlety of Mozart’s complex part-writing.
Gramophone, November 2024
The Bennewitz Quartet’s captivating performances are well projected, sensitively phrased and abundant in contrasts of dynamic and mood… the quartet plays with commendable freedom and unanimity… Vaňhal and Dittersdorf’s quartets particularly showcase leader Jakub Fišer’s neat, unfettered and often bravura contributions, but his colleagues also gain prominence, especially in the episodes of both works’ energetic rondo finales.
The Strad, November 2024
If those four composers played with quite the same flare and energy as the Bennewitz Quartet, it must have been quite some occasion!
BBC Music Magazine, December 2024
The Bennewitz Quartet consciously places itself in the tradition of Bohemian music-making, the powerful, juicy sound, the joy of music-making. The quartet's sound is very dense, very lively and yet very transparent, with all four instruments playing in complete equality - and yet the sunny, bright first violin stands out somewhat as a leader. All four strings play with loving devotion, tenderness, absolute purity of intonation and floating lightness.
Klassik-Heute, October 2024
