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Utter sincerity and conviction

Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk

…This unassuming anthology is revelatory… a thoroughbred Prague-based string quartet playing 13 Beatles songs, in superb, sophisticated arrangements by the eclectic Czech composer Luboš Krtička…

“That these players approach Krtička’s recastings with utter sincerity and conviction is a given”

…there’s never any sense that they’re slumming it. The choice moments are too many to mention – the soft introduction to “Here Comes the Sun”, and the delectable, hushed coda in the opening of “Julia” are sublime. A lovely disc.

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06/05/2026