Press

“These four string quartets encompass Krzysztof Penderecki’s mid-career sea change in style… No matter the challenge, the Tippett Quartet play with conviction”

The Sunday Times

“Penderecki’s first two Quartets, written in the 1960s and the most avant-garde offerings are on the Tippett Quartet’s exhilarating survey of the late Polish composer’s chamber music for strings. Michael Ponder’s almost frighteningly vivid sound recording adds to the music’s joyful abandon, which continues in works from the 1980s and beyond when tonality, folk melodies and other old habits infused the composer’s language. The Tippett Quartet attacks every note with lovely gusto and precision – life-enhancing”

The Times

“The Tippetts not only provide renditions of equal stature, missing no nuance of either extreme calm or intransigent violence, but Naxos’s recording is as clear as a bell. This is a recording deserving of the very highest recommendation”

Gramophone

“The Tippett Quartet’s new album demonstrates this Polish composer’s versatility and should be on every quartet’s repertoire list the Tippett Quartet’s album, in every respect, is whole and rewarding”

The Guardian

“It is impossible to imagine more expert renditions than these”

Gramophone

“It was depth and roundness of character that distinguished the concert by the Tippett Quartet confirming their standing as a marvellous ensemble full of vitality, and with interpretative sensibility and intelligence to match”

The Daily Telegraph

“This concert by England’s Tippett Quartet, their debut in Canada, was about time”

Bachtrack

“The Tippett Quartet’s performances are little short of astonishing”

The Strad

“The Tippett Quartet plays with a seasoned cohesion and rapport and promises to a make a significant contribution to the realms of chamber music”

The Daily Telegraph

“I can’t imagine the Bax receiving a more passionate and devoted performance”

Classic FM Magazine

“It’s difficult to imagine finer performances than those delivered by the Tippett Quartet Immaculate tonal blend and technical precisio”

BBC Music Maganzine

“These are vital performances, edgy and energetic but rich in tone…. A really fine disc, excellently played and beautifully recorded”

Gramophone

“The playing of the Tippett Quartet is fully engaged with everything Penderecki’s music throws at it, from the gestural sonic aphorisms of the early works to the poignant melodising and rhythmic impact of the late ones. And it all comes across with spectacular vividness in this recording, with its generous stereo spread enhancing the interplay between all the different instruments”

The Strad

“The superb Tippett Quartet prove themselves deeply eloquent communicators of this composer’s poignant voice. I cannot recommend this recording highly enough, and have run out of superlatives”

Gramophone

“This massive stylistic range is negotiated with consummate skill by the Tippett Quartet—no easy task—and the recording by Michael Ponder, made in St John the Evangelist Church in Oxford, is absolutely outstanding, resonant but allowing every detail to be heard”

Gramophone

“A triumphant Penderecki set from the Tippetts. This journey through the composer’s chamber works is performed with radiant assurance”

BBC Music Magazine

“All three works are given exemplary performances by the Tippett Quartet and Julian Bliss’s liquid legato is seductive”

the arts desk

“The musicians of the Tippett Quartet played as if they had been playing this music all their performing lives”

The Times

“The audience gave the English guests rapturous approval”

Audiophilia

“The Tippett Quartet’s performance had enormous cogency and power”

The Guardian

“Ashley Wass and the Tippett Quartet rise magnificently to its challenges, striking the perfect balance between grandiloquence and intense and genuine feeling – a thrilling performance”

BBC Music Magazine

“The Tippett Quartet give warm, muscular performances”

The Guardian

“Excellent exploratory performances from The Tippett Quartet”

BBC Radio 3, Record Review

“You can really hear the members of the Tippett Quartet listening keenly to each other as they weave their seemingly effortless magic”

BBC Music Magazine

“Delivered with relish”

The Guardian