“...played by the Left Bank String Quartet with brilliant focus and timbral variety”

“...the Left Bank Quartet played this difficult score with confidence that bespoke enormous attention to detail. Schoenberg’s opulent harmonies rang with bell-like clarity.”

“...has a patina of venerability that adds a relaxed glow to everything they touch”

“...it was the structure, laid out transparently, that the quartet communicated so well”

“...approached the work with masterful fluency and a high-Romantic flexibility in tempo and spirit”

“The Left Bank ensemble played the piece with an engaging sense of conviviality, as well as an ability to change character midstream and slide from one tempo to another with the coolness of the best jazz musicians.”

“...intense, driven, technically precise, yet loaded with feeling.”

“The Left Bank Quartet gave a thoroughly worked-out account of Leos Janacek’s ‘Intimate Letters’, accentuating the drama that pervades this mercurial work.”

“The performance could not have been more unified and attentive: The players seemed to breathe as one.”