David Matthews' String Quartets

It reinforces the view that, Robert Simpson apart, he is probably the most important British quartet composer of recent decades...The Kreutzer Quartet (each of whom gets a solo spot in the work's... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Quartet No. 1] appears influenced by Schoenberg, Bartók and, in some of its aphoristic yet highly expressive melodic fragments, Janáček. Quartet No. 2 (1974-76) is more 'of its time', the Scherzo's... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Not only our most prominent symphonist, Matthews leads the way in maintaining the time-honoured genre of the string quartet...The Kreutzers’ performances are deeply felt. — Sunday Times, 6th June 2010 More…