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"This is good. Very good. Acclaim and the Pavel Haas Quartet are familiar bedfellows – after all, they did win Gramophone’s Record of the Year for their Dvořák two years ago. But this is their first recording that really steps into a crowded marketplace. They represent the best qualities of the Czech tradition – warmth, sonorousness, individuality, intensity; but what’s striking here is their fearless risk-taking, their fervency and the absolute confidence with which they propel you through these two masterpieces."

Gramophone, October 2013

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"If CDs had grooves I would already have worn out these marvellous recordings by the Pavel Haas Quartet of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet and his Quintet in C. The young Czechs have the perfect fusion of virtuosity and profundity. Death and the Maiden is given the more melodramatic reading, but the masterfully paced and subtly nuanced performance of the sublime Quintet is the one that bowls me over."

The Times, September 2013