Excellent introduction to their full set on CD - a favourite set of mine
The Endellion Quartet was formed in 1979 and is now the resident quartet at Cambridge University. They have become renowned world-wide for their abilities everywhere `setting the audience ablaze' (Daily Telegraph) and for playing with `poise, true intonation, excellent balanceand a beautiful tone' (Grove Dictionary).
All of this is true, not only of this current DVD release but also of their CD recording of the complete Beethoven quartets. Like me therefore, you may be tempted to view this issue as a sort of sampler before adding further to your collection. It is an ideal coupling for that purpose as it contains one quartet from each of the three periods of Beethoven's development - early, middle and late. All three are given fine, possibly revelatory, performances.
You will not be disappointed for indeed, they fulfil all the expectations created by the above quotes. This has been a more involving experience for me than either the much admired earlier Italian...
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