Jan Smaczny, BBC Music Magazine
“The Wihan Quartet has secured a reputation as one of the world’s finest chamber ensembles.”
Notwithstanding two changes in personnel in recent years, they have maintained their high standing…
…The Wihan Quartet’s reading of the first movement [of Smetana’s Second Quartet] is well-considered and plots a convincing course through Smetana’s multitude of tempo indications…
“they bring extraordinary cohesion to the final movements. In Dvořák’s utterly different quartet the ensemble is at its best in the last three movements with relaxed and refined performances.”
The first movement [of Dvořák’s String Quartet no. 10 in E flat, op. 51]… is… superbly played. Inspired by his love for a much younger woman, Janáček’s Second Quartet inhabits a much more febrile world. The Wihan Quartet are alive to its demands in a powerfully engaged performance, haunting in the third movement and incandescent at the end of the fourth…
