South Bank Centre (London), Schubert Quintet / Schiff
"A performance of definitive greatness."
Daily Telegraph
South Bank Centre (London), Mozart
"The best performances of Mozart I have heard for some time."
Daily Telegraph
South Bank Centre (London), Schnittke
"A magisterial and uncompromising performance."
The Times
South Bank Centre (London), Berio
"The Alban Berg Quartet have an instinctual togetherness. They breathe and come in like a single organism. Their sound is chestnut sweet an their feeling for each other's impulses is as sure as radar. They know how to make noise sound beautiful."
Evening Standard
20th century collection
"Intense, exemplary performances, notable equally for their passion and their recision…spellbinding authority…peerlessly persuasive advocacy."
BBC Music Magazine
Haydn / EMI
"Cultivated and masterful..in every regard quite superb."
Classic CD
Haydn / EMI
"Uncommonly fine..the Bergs bring a rare imaginative insight to this ever-astonishing, inexhaustible music."
Gramophone
Schubert / EMI
"What impresses me above all is the flexibility and sensitivity of these performances…the Alban Berg, by subtly drawing our attention to the precise emotional colour of all Schubert's magical harmonic shifts, find a touching, intimate quality within the grand design."
Gramophone
Beethoven, Rihm, Schnittke / EMI
"If there's any finer string quartet playing in the world today then I've missed it."
Classic CD
Berio, Lutoslawski & Urbanner / EMI
"Few string quartets rival the precision and passion of the Alban Bergs."
Sunday Times