"It's clearly obvious in this new recording that their homeland music is in their blood."

"Certainly, the virtues that make their First Quartet so compelling – an intense sensitivity to mood, an instinctive swing to their Czech dance rhythms and a certain rawness (these are performances that have soil under their fingers) – help illuminate the darker corners of the Second and make sense of its often tormented musical argument. That makes it sound gloomier than it is, but these readings are nothing if not vital, and there’s an undercurrent of intimacy that’s all the more poignant for being surrounded by such rough-cut honesty. [...] The fiercest music here has an undertow of tenderness, and the softest is never truly tranquil. The encore is swept up in the general urgency: a fitting conclusion to a compelling but far from easy emotional journey."

Nominated on Longlist 2/2025 for: Jury Kammermusik I

"this is a Heldenleben all Strauss enthusiasts should own, and one every violinist should acquire for Raudales’s contribution."