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many are the moments in which the Ragazze players slalom their way splendidly from challenge to challenge, with the tension strongly sustained and the ensemble well unified, breathing as one.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Ragazze Quartet tackles Bartók with vitality and assurance in this first volume of the complete quartets. Some more depth and guts would lift them to the next level. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The cross-fertilisation certainly produces a pungent programme, played with terrific spirit...These two musicians work instinctively together, knowing just when to assert their pre-eminence... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013 More…

His performances of all [the works] unveil his artistry and musical thought in a way more redolent of his live performance persona than the evidence we have hitherto had on disc, exposing him... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…

An exciting idea this…and it works! After all, Bartók greatly admired Scarlatti: he even recorded a couple of his sonatas. Both composers were innovators and combined a strong feeling for rhythm... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The performance [of the Brahms] is indisputably strong, as one might expect from this ensemble. Despite the greater sonic weight there’s no danger of the musical argument being muddied…There’s... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018 More…