Mozart - String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K465 'Dissonance'

In the B flat and E flat Quartets – not always the most comfortable of keys for string ensembles – the Armida’s sparkling corporate intonation and textural litheness prove especially beguiling…Most... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[the divertmenti are] normally done with full orchestral forces, but they work perfectly well as string quartets - especially when performed as immaculately as here, with everything honed to... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These performances by the Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna are suffused with a rich, warm and sweet tone - what one might call appropriately Viennese qualities - and the players communicate... — BBC Music Magazine More…

These are superb performances, with well-judged tempos, nicely sprung rhythms… a sense of spontaneity. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

They produce an homogeneous and cultured sound, and their music-making is obviously the outcome of deep thought ... full of character and imbued with the humane values of the pre-jet age — Gramophone Magazine More…

Mozart’s Haydn quartets from the 1780s, part of the composer’s golden period, possess invention, with and touches of tragedy which the Engegards mirror with intimate, soulful, subtle playing.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…